Self-Identifying Race Question, not sure what to do

allyphoe
Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:46:11 +0000

Call the sperm bank and ask, if she’s curious. They ought to be able to pull records from the mother’s name (and the mother is the one who would need to call). I’m somewhat surprised that a single mother by choice who intentionally chose to have a mixed-race child has no records at all, so there may be more to the story than what the daughter knows.

I personally would not advise my own child to claim an ethnic identity which has never been part of her self-identification in an attempt to game college admissions, whether any proof of a genetic connection existed or not.