I’ve known I was donor-conceived for as long as I can remember. I think I was told when I was born, and my parents gave me more details as I got older — whenever I could understand what the word “donor” meant. I can’t remember the exact age I was told, and that’s kind of the point. I know of so many stories where donor-conceived kids have vivid memories of when their parents told them. Sometimes, their parents didn’t even tell them at all, and they had to find out through a DNA test, or from another family member letting it slip. I’ve never had that problem. Being donor-conceived has been such ..read more

When did we as a society stop observing boundaries? There used to be a time when an individual wouldn’t think to ask another individual how much money they made, who they voted for, what religion they practiced, how old they were, how much they paid on their taxes, how much they weighed, if they had plastic surgery or weight loss surgery, their sexual preferences or habits, if they were going to have kids or how many kids they were going to have. But now we live in this fish bowl society where the above is asked on a daily basis repeatedly, and my question is why? why do we feel like that’s OK ..read more

As professionals, we know less about families formed through embryo donation than other means of donor conception. This research can help us understand why people donate or not and how their families are doing. You are under no obligation to participate, but as with all research, it is likely to be helpful to you and others to better understand this complicated form of family building. In the last 30 years, embryo donation has grown thousands of families, helped train a generation of embryologists to better treat the millions of Americans suffering from infertility, and facilitated medical res ..read more