Couples who used sperm donors win right to be called legal parents

High court judge says 'widespread incompetence' in industry had put people's parental status in doubt Couples who used sperm donors to conceive have had their parental status called into question after "widespread incompetence" in the sector was revealed in court. Handing down a ruling in the family division of the High Court, where seven couples were battling to establish a legal declaration that they were the legal parents of their offspring, judge Sir James Munby said that some couples were s...