The relationship between solo parents and fertility clinics
Dr Grace Halden asks how medicine and patient communities can work together to better ensure differentiated care, using the example of solo motherhood via gamete donation...
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DCN (Donor Conception Network)
A UK charity established in 1993 which supports donor-conceived people, their families, and people considering or undergoing donor-assisted conception treatment.
19 articles
Children's rights and donor conception: What next?
There have been recent reports that the UK's assisted reproduction regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, is considering changing the law surrounding donor anonymity, due to the growing use of consumer genetic testing...
Education Review: Primary Schools Resources - The Donor Conception Network
Donor conceived children are among us; we have come a long way since the early days of sperm donation, but it would be easy to forget that each family built through donor conception and assisted conception is going through its own particular journey.
Personal genetic testing and the implications for the donor conception community
2017 was the year that personal genetic testing took off in a big way...
The wild east and the worried west: pioneers or outlaws?
'The Wild East and the Worried West: Pioneers or Outlaws?’ was the third session of the Progress Educational Trust's (PET) Annual Conference 'Crossing Frontiers: Moving the Boundaries of Human Reproduction'...
Dutch sperm donor may have fathered 102 children
A man is being investigated in the Netherlands after claims he fathered over 100 children through sperm donation...
Donor-conceived people do benefit from being told about their conception
Professor Guido Pennings' provocatively entitled BioNews commentary 'Donor children do not benefit from being told about their conception' purports to highlight the shortcomings of existing research supporting a pro-disclosure agenda and castigates couns
Book Review: Telling and Talking about Donor Conception with People Aged 17 and Over - A Guide for Parents
Olivia Montuschi's revised 'Telling and Talking' booklet aims to guide parents of donor conceived children aged 17 or over through the delicate process of disclosure...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Birth Certificates and Assisted Reproduction: Setting the Record Straight?
This event explored how can the law deal with the multiple-parent families created by donor conception and surrogacy, and asked: 'What makes someone a parent, and how should a birth certificate reflect that?'...
Should the Law Commission take a look at the birth registration system?
Birth registration seems to be an increasingly 'unstraightforward' procedure for many. Given the impact that birth registration has on wider society, effective law reform cannot be implemented without asking wider questions about the role and purpose of birth registration in contemporary society, as opposed to piecemeal reform of a system that was designed to meet the needs of the early Victorian era...
