 The rights and responsibilities that attach to parenthood are generally understood to be very weighty. Consequently, determining whether or not gamete donors are parents is a question that has attracted much attention. But even if gamete donors are not parents in the deeper ethical sense, they may still have considerable rights and obligations towards their biological offspring. While there is considerable overlap here with the parenthood literature (see the entry on  parenthood and procreation)  questions about parenthood in the context of gamete donation have garnered much specific attention. In what follows we will examine three distinctive questions that have emerged: (1) Are gamete donors parents? (2) Can parental responsibilities be transferred to others? (3) Do gamete providers acquire any non-parental obligations?