Recipient Parents: Holiday Stressors & Strategies
The holidays can be a joyous time, and they can certainly also bring a unique stress for families who had help to become parents.
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=Ask a Therapist: Seeking Advice to Support a Single Mom by Choice
A concerned friend wants to know how best to support a single mom by choice who has a strained relationship with her adult donor conceived daughter.
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=USDCC Opposes Harmful Provision in S. 4638 (2025 National Defense Authorization Act)
USDCC opposes Section 627(f) of S. 4638 (2025 National Defense Authorization Act).
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Ask a Therapist: Known Donor Considers Meeting His Donor Conceived Children
A known sperm donor considers meeting his minor donor conceived offspring.
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=“Inconceivable: A Memoir” Review
Valerie Bauman describes “Inconceivable: A Memoir” as part memoir and part investigative journalism, leading readers through her own journey to motherhood while looping in interviews from donors, recipient parents, donor conceived individuals, and reproductive professionals.
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Ask a Therapist: Advice and Resources for Known Donor Arrangement
A future recipient parent wonders about advice and resources available for entering into a known donor arrangement.
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=Switched Before Birth: How a mislabeled vial upended my family’s world
Casey Duncan is the recipient parent to two donor conceived people. One of them was “switched before birth.”
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=Ask a Therapist: Estrangement after Ignoring Child’s Curiosity about the Donor
A recipient parent wonders how to fix a strained relationship with her child after failing to respond to the child's curiosity about the donor while growing up.
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Ask a Therapist: Discussing and Building Relationships with Donor Siblings
A recipient parent wonders how to discuss their child's donor siblings and when to establish a relationship.
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=Alabama High Court Ruling Also Harmful to Donor Conceived People and Their Families
USDCC joins others to express concerns about the potential implications of the Supreme Court of Alabama’s opinion in LePage v. The Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C.
