User blog comment:Bioshocknall/Shepard kids pt 1/@comment-1679409-20150203234110

Absolutely not. This is probably the most annoying theory/wish I keep hearing for ME4, rivaled only by the First Contact War. Going with Shepard's kid cuts out most of the possible romances. All gay romances would be cut out because there would be no baby conceived (save for Liara-FemShep). All FemShep romances (again, save for Liara-FemShep) would be left out because, even if a baby had been conceived, it would have died with Shepard. Even for straight MaleSheps, you have the genetic issues with Tali, and Miranda is evidently sterile. And that's assuming that the love interest even survived long enough to have a children.

Going around this all by saying something like "Cerberus used Shepard's eggs/sperm, artificial insemination, and a surrogate mother" would seem really cheap.