Ask a Therapist: Dealing with Child’s Deep Distress after Adulthood Disclosure
A recipient parent seeks advice and resources to address her daughter's deep distress from the late disclosure of being donor conceived.
A recipient parent seeks advice and resources to address her daughter's deep distress from the late disclosure of being donor conceived.
Deciding to use donor sperm or eggs is often a result of a fertility complication. In this emotional process, the consideration of how donor conceived people (DCP) will feel about their conception is often overlooked.
Guest blog by Peter J. Boni, author of Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination
Are you a former donor or considering becoming one? Read this guide.
Many donor conceived people argue it is detrimental to use the term “donor” because it promotes a false narrative of altruism and obscures reality.