Donor dad Andy Bathie and his childrenA lesbian mother has defended the Child Support Agency's decision to make a sperm donor pay to raise her two children.
Fireman Andy Bathie was a friend her former lesbian partner and stepped in with an offer to donate sperm when the couple were considering visiting a private clinic for a donation. He donated for the couple twice, via home insemination, resulting in two children.
It was decided that he would have no responsibility over the children and he talked of having a legal contract drawn up outlining this. However, as Terri Arnold, the children's mother points out, over time he changed his mind and began taking an active role as a father, including having his daughter stay at his house, and taking paternity leave from work. In addition to this he had his daughter call him daddy, not 'Uncle Andy' as had previously been agreed.
Things changed after the second child was born with a disability, Bathie began withdrawing his role as a father, leading his four year old daughter to question when she would next see "daddy".
Having now split from her lesbian partner, and with the CSA threatening to cut her benefits unless she named her children's father, mother Terri explains she had no choice in demanding that he provide for his children financially. She claims that he walked away from his disabled son and a daughter who saw him as her father.
However Bathie claims that being forced to pay £450 a month towards the children is stopping him being able to afford to have his own family. He describes the children as "another couples children" and has launched a legal appeal, thought to be the first of it's kind in the UK, to overturn the decision to make him pay child support.
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