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Being a dad is not easy. The job description can be so daunting, in fact, that some gay never become real dads at all. Too many headaches. Too much responsibility. For more than a few, fatherhood begins and ends with a simple donation of sperm. Each time he went in, he signed a confidentiality agreement.
And each time he left, he figured his business was done. He did not know, or care, delivery his seed might be planted. Until a lawyer man by his house and informs him that he has, through a mishmash of clerical errors, curiously high demand and just plain bad luck, sired children. And of them have filed a lawsuit to find out who their father is.
Of course this is a fictional fable, but ABC News estimates that about 2 million children have gay been born in the U. So the possibilities the story suggests are real. These kids needed a dad. They all feel as though they were handicapped by not having one. In court, they talk about the vacuum that not having a father present in their lives left in them, and that getting to know their father is still central to their lives.
Through man search, they all come to see themselves as brothers and sisters—a huge extended family. For David, the concept of fathering children begins as a delivery, maybe a little horrifying abstraction. But they are numbers, nothing more. And he begins to look at them, one by one. Driven by curiosity, he seeks them out—meeting them not as a father at first, but as a curiously nosy stranger.
He orders an espresso from one of his sons and winds up taking over the coffee shop while his boy auditions for an acting gig. He delivers pizza to one of his daughters who, in his presence, overdoses.
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He rushes her to the hospital and finds himself forced to make difficult decisions about her future. Let us drink. We see a picture of Jesus hanging on a wall. Obviously, David did not father children without some sort of sexual action being taken, albeit a solitary one. And the movie serves up a variety of jokes and crude remarks regarding erections and his penchant for manual stimulation.
We should also note that David and his pregnant squeeze Emma are not married. He does eventually propose.