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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=Gamete & Embryo Donors: Holiday Stressors & Strategies
The holidays are fraught with stressors for everyone. As an egg, sperm, or embryo donor, the holidays contain an extra layer of complexity.
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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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=I was kept in the dark about being donor conceived. It left me blind as a parent.
When Edward Miles became a parent, he realized that his lack of information as a donor conceived person not only impacted him but now his own child as well.
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Ask a Therapist: Telling a New Sibling Their Father Was Not the Donor
A donor conceived person wonders how to inform a new sibling that their father was not the donor and that the sibling is instead also donor conceived.
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=Questions to Ask the Sperm Bank Before Donating
Before deciding to donate, it is important to ask the right questions to ensure that your contributions are used ethically and in accordance with your expectations.
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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: Struggling with Stored Donor Embryos
A recipient parent struggles with extra stored donor embryos and clinic restrictions.
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=Erin Maya’s “The Complete Picture” Puts Donor Conception to Music
Four years ago, Erin Maya started work on the music and lyrics for her rock musical "The Complete Picture," which tackles the identity crisis that often accompanies genealogical explorations by donor conceived people. The music for the show was publicly performed for the first time at The Green Room 42 in New York City on Jan. 8.
