Looking at page after page of childhood photos, Xiaogunzhu was drawn to an image of a French-Irish boy with smiling dark blue eyes. But she was not admiring her lover’s family album, she was browsing a catalogue of potential sperm donors – the 39-year-old is one of an increasing number of affluent single women in China seeking a child, but not a husband.
Her baby, now nine months old, is called Oscar after a character in a comic about the French Revolution – a nod to the donor’s French ancestry.
Peter Reeslev, the chief executive of Cryos International, said that given the extra choices, “Chinese women tend to choose Caucasian donors”.
US sperm bank California Cryobank has 70 available donors out of 500 who identify as Chinese. But experts say regardless of the availability of Chinese or Chinese-American donors, women are still choosing to have mixed-race children.
“Before choosing the sperm donor I had not considered a particular race,” insisted Carrie, but after seeing the catalogue she realised she had a preference for foreign physical traits – and now has two half-Danish children.
For baby Oscar, Xiaogunzhu said personality was the major factor in her decision, as the donor was listed as “full of joy”.
But on her Weibo blog, photos of Oscar with the hashtag #mixed-race baby draw admiration.
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