Ask a Therapist: How to Discuss Donor Conception with a Toddler
A recipient parent wonders how to discuss donor conception with her two-year-old child.
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Ask a Therapist: How to Do Single Parenthood by Choice “Right”
An intended parent wonders whether it is possible to do single parenthood by choice "right."
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Ask a Therapist: How to Answer Questions When Your Country Mandates Anonymity
A recipient parent wonders how to navigate questions from her child when her country mandates anonymity.
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Ask a Therapist: How to Discuss Familial Gamete Donation
An intended parent wonders how her potential donor and brother in law would tell his children about donating sperm.
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My Journey of Discovery after Early Disclosure
I cannot remember a time in my life that I did not know I was donor conceived. I was raised by the most amazing single mother and never lacked anything, but I was constantly reminded I did not have a dad.
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Celebrating My Family as a Queer, Donor Conceived Recipient Parent
I was born in London to two mums who used an anonymous sperm donor to conceive me. I was raised knowing my conception story, as it was talked about casually, and all my questions were answered to their best ability as I grew up.
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Family Ties: How My Donor Conception Discovery Changed My Outlook as a Queer Recipient Parent
I’m sure I said, “It’s actually a ‘donor’ not a father.” I can remember my voice saying, “Our daughter doesn’t have a dad. She has two moms.” But much of that changed for me when I found out about my own donor conception experience.
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Incredulity, Anxiety, Yearning, and Other Emotions of Late Discovery
"I joke with people that my first thought was, 'I’ve been diluted.' And as humorous as it may be to joke that finding out I was half white contributed to a sense of identity or cultural 'dilution,' it simultaneously created an incomparable sadness that took years to deconstruct."
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The Harmful Impact of Secret Keeping
Parents who want to keep donor conception a secret are usually trying to protect their child from emotional and relationship distress, but secrets are no guarantee of protection. Just as anonymity is hard to protect for a lifetime, genetic information is hard to keep secret for a lifetime.
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Voice Your Support for Colorado SB 22-224
Colorado SB 22-224, the “Donor-Conceived Persons and Families of Donor-Conceived Persons Protection Act,” is moving to the Colorado House of Representatives. We need your voice in support of this landmark legislation.
