Child Born Of Sperm From A Deceased Father

People especially the white find in VITRO fertilization (fertilization in laboratory glassware) an acceptable way for couples to reproduce. Recently, however, in vitro fertilization was done using sperm that had been frozen for twenty years!  This sparked a new debate about the ethics of assisted reproductive technologies and the various dilemmas surrounding the practice. There is this story of a young man that had a supply of his sperm frozen because for testicular cancer will have him sterile. His cancer was successfully treated, and twenty years later, he and his new wife desired to have children. They had the 20-year old sperm thawed and used to eggs that were placed in his wife’s uterus. After multiple attempts, the wife conceived, and gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

I don’t believe it is cruel to deny a child born of sperm from a deceased father the right to meet and know his father. Why should it? A lot of people in this world today had lost their fathers before or shortly after they were born. And still they are not suffering any traumatic moments.
        The situation of not growing up to know someone’s biological father is not new in history. Yet no one has refereed to it as being cruel. So why should a child born of sperm from a deceased father be? The child’s situation is as good as losing his father when he was still in the mother’s womb.
       If the father had earlier stated in his will before his death, then there should be nothing cruel in having his own baby after his death. What if the widow really needed the baby as a beneficiary? Or what if the deceased father family really needed someone that would take after him? We can’t cause a cut off in succession just because we want to avoid any form of cruelty. The child himself will understand why that has happened, and the child will have to forget about everything pertaining to being denied to meet and know his father.
        It is defiantly not cruel if a child is denied knowing and meeting the father. But all this still depends on both cultural and religious orientation given to the child. If the child is taught to accept in kind of situation he finds himself in, then he will definitely not have problems with the denial of knowing and meeting his father. The child would have learnt how to accept the cruellest of fate.