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Author: Amelie Baumann Publisher: transcript Verlag ISBN: 3839457319 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 337
Book Description
While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in the UK and Germany, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived persons play in it. This book shows that it is not someone's decision to procreate that turns »being donor-conceived« into a meaningful categorisation. Rather, kinship knowledge gets activated by the donor-conceived in specific ways for »being donor-conceived« to become a powerful identification.
Author: Amelie Baumann Publisher: transcript Verlag ISBN: 3839457319 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 337
Book Description
While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in the UK and Germany, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived persons play in it. This book shows that it is not someone's decision to procreate that turns »being donor-conceived« into a meaningful categorisation. Rather, kinship knowledge gets activated by the donor-conceived in specific ways for »being donor-conceived« to become a powerful identification.
Author: Wendy Kramer Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1583335269 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 290
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The first comprehensive book that offers invaluable step-by-step advice for families with donor-conceived children. Wendy Kramer, founder and director of the Donor Sibling Registry, and Naomi Cahn, family and reproductive law professor, have compiled a comprehensive and thorough guide for the growing community of families with donor-conceived children. Kramer and Cahn believe that all donor-conceived children’s desire to know their genetic family must be honored, and in Finding Our Families, they offer advice on how to foster healthy relationships within immediate families and their larger donor family networks based on openness and acceptance. With honesty and compassion, the authors offer thoughtful strategies and inspirational stories to help parents answer their own, and their children’s, questions and concerns that will surely arise, including: How to support your children’s curiosity and desire to know about their ancestry and genetic and medical background. How to help children integrate their birth story into a healthy self-image. How to help your children search for their donor or half siblings if and when they express interest in doing so. Finding Our Families opens up the lives of donor-conceived people who may be coping with uncertainty, thriving despite it, and finding novel ways to connect in this uncharted territory as they navigate the challenges and rewards of the world of donor conception.
Author: Caroline Lorbach Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 1846427118 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 208
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Drawing on the experiences of parents, offspring and donors and including her own and her family's story, this thought-provoking and informative book explores the process of donor conception. From finding out about an infertility problem, to considering whether - and how - to tell the children about their conception, and how those children feel as the adult offspring of a donor, she provides practical suggestions as well as in-depth consideration of the emotional and ethical issues involved. Lorbach takes the reader step-by-step through the process of deciding to use donor conception, choosing a donor, and discussing the decision with others - and considers the perspective of the donor alongside those of parents and offspring. Tackling difficult subjects such as disclosure and offspring's access to information about the donor, this important book is a much-needed resource for health, counseling and social work professionals as well as for the couples and families themselves.
Author: Daniel Groll Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190063076 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 257
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Each year, tens of thousands of children are conceived with donated gametes (sperm or eggs). By some estimates, there are over one million donor-conceived people in the United States and, of course, many more the world over. Some know they are donor-conceived. Some do not. Some know the identity of their donors. Others never will. Questions about what donor-conceived people should know about their genetic progenitors are hugely significant for literally millions of people, including donor-conceived people, their parents, and donors. But the practice of gamete donation also provides a vivid occasion for thinking about questions that matter to everyone. What is the value of knowing who your genetic progenitors are? How are our identities bound up with knowing where we come from? What obligations do parents have to their children? And what makes someone a parent in the first place? In Conceiving People: Identity, Genetics and Gamete Donation, Daniel Groll argues that people who plan to create a child with donated gametes should choose a donor whose identity will be made available to the resulting child. This is not, Groll argues, because having genetic knowledge is fundamentally important. Rather, it is because donor-conceived people are likely to develop a significant interest in having genetic knowledge and parents must help satisfy their children's significant interests. In other words, because a donor-conceived person is likely to care about having genetic knowledge, their parents should care too.
Author: Irene Celcer Publisher: Graphite Press ISBN: 9780975581025 Category : Infants Languages : en Pages : 0
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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)
Author: Donor Conception Network Publisher: ISBN: 9781910222836 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 20
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Our Story - A book for the children of donors explaining about how the donor helped other families be created. This is one of a series of books and this book is for embryo donors who do not know the recipient family.
Author: Petra Nordqvist Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1800435649 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 297
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Drawing on interviews with donors, their kin and fertility counsellors, the authors discuss what donation stories can tell us about contemporary understandings of connectedness, time and morality in the context of reproduction and family life, and consider how reproductive ‘openness’ might be done differently.
Author: Donor Conception Network Publisher: ISBN: 9781910222812 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 20
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Our Story - A book for the children of donors explaining about how the donor helped other families be created. This is one of a series of books and this book is for sperm donors who do not know the recipient families.
Author: Donor Conception Network Publisher: ISBN: 9781912886012 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 28
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Our Story - A book for donor conceived children under seven years old explaining about their origins. This is one of a series of books and this book is for mum and dad families who have used sperm donation, not in a clinic. This book is relevant for those who have used known, identifiable and anonymous donors.
Author: Amelie Baumann
Author: Amelie Baumann
Author: Wendy Kramer
Author: Caroline Lorbach
Author: Daniel Groll
Author: Jana M Rupnow Lpc
Author: Irene Celcer
Author: Donor Conception Network
Author: Petra Nordqvist
Author: Donor Conception Network
Author: Donor Conception Network