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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those that are asking "why tell them?" and questioning the risk of commercial dna testing espcially as the children reach adulthood -

there's more to dna testing than just the silly estimated "ethnicity" results.  Join any genetic genealogy group and you will see daily comments from stunned adults who discovered one or both of their parents are NOT their biological parent.  A big part of dna testing is "matching": sharing results with the rest of the participants and finding familial matches.  Some of the folks making these discoveries are old enough to have had their parent(s) pass away so there is no one to turn to to get "their story".

It's heartbreaking to witness.

If that was OP who posted earlier that they did dna testing and it "didn't reveal a thing" did you opt into matching/sharing and check your child's matches? [/quote]

I am that PP. I should say didn’t reveal anything we didn’t already know. We both come from famous old families with records dating back a ridiculous long time.  Lots and lots of genetic matches. If we followed every one down it would be a big long hobby. What does it even mean? I did get a match from my cousin so it’s accurate. Ancestry.com is social. [/quote]

OK that response does not make sense in the context of this thread.

If you tested the child, who is a product of donor eggs and father's sperm, the known or recognizable matches will only be to the father's side.  All the child's dna matches at a site like ancestry.com will be to the father and the donor and not the mother who carried the pregnancy (unless she's related to the donor) .

The point isn't about the parents doing dna testing but about the child who was conceived using donor eggs. [/quote]

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