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AFA - The American Fertility Association - provides a fact sheet, Talking with Children About Ovum Donation:
A Guide for Parents .
ASRM - The American Society of Reproductive Medicine- has a Children's Bibliography on third party reproduction, information booklets and fact sheets. ¡Algunos en español! Bloggers The Town Criers and Labor Negotiations recount their struggles with infertility. Check out the cool review of "Mommy, Was Your Tummy Big?" and Mel and Josh's wonderful song, Mother Earth's Flower Shop. The Donor Conception Network and the Donor Conception Support Group (DCSG) provide information and support for families dealing with donor conception issues, including telling and talking to children about DE. The Donor Sibling Registry - a database which assists individuals, conceived as a result of sperm, egg or embryo donation, make mutually desired contact with others with whom they share genetic ties. INCIID, the InterNational Council on Infertility Information Dissemination, has information on third party reproduction.
The NYU Child Study Center has excellent information about learning, behavioral, and emotional issues in children, including an article about answering kids' questions about donor sperm and eggs.
Resolve - the National Infertility Association has lots of information and a bulletin board where you can connect with others going through similar fertility issues. Other websites with information about third party reproduction and talking to children.... Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media has an article To Tell or Not to Tell? Secrecy vs. Openness and multimedia presentations on Talking to Kids about assisted reproductive technology . The Center for Adoption Support and Education has an article Talking to Children Conceived Through Donor Insemination, IVF with Egg Donor or Surrogacy. The New York Times discusses donor eggs in 1987 Quandary on Donor Eggs: What to Tell the Children and in 2007 Your Gamete, Myself And the Boston Globe discusses the issue in To tell the truth- Many parents who use donor eggs to conceive have trouble explaining it to their children. |
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