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 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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Ask a Therapist: Connecting a Child with Siblings
A recipient parent wonders about how and when to connect their child with donor conceived siblings.
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Ask a Therapist: Open ID at 18 or Known Donor
An intended parent wonders about the pros and cons of choosing a known donor versus an Open-ID-at-18 donor with her wife.
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Ask a Therapist: Choosing A Donor
An intended parent wonders about the best way to choose a donor for the benefit of the future child.
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Ask a Therapist: Using an Anonymous Egg Donor from Peru
An intended parent wonders about the implications of using an embryo created with an egg from an anonymous donor in Peru.
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USDCC Attends 2023 Jefferson Infertility Counseling Conference
U.S. Donor Conceived Council had the opportunity to attend and participate in the 2023 Jefferson Infertility Counseling Conference in Philadelphia from April 26 to 29, 2023.
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2022 Sperm Bank Data Survey
USDCC sought to collect data on sperm banks across the United States. A survey was conducted in which sperm bank websites were reviewed for relevant data and then those data were confirmed via contact with representatives from each bank.
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Five Things I Wish I’d Known Before Donating Sperm (#5 is the Most Important)
A former sperm donor with at least 96 donor offspring shares the five things he wishes he had known before donating.
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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.
