Becoming a Known Sperm Donor: Responsibilities and Long-Term Questions
What prospective known donors should weigh before offering help — legal status, health screening duties, family limits, and the donor-conceived child's right to know.
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Using a Known Sperm Donor as a Single Mother
A child-centred guide to donor roles, legal parenthood, clinic and home routes, screening, support networks and the decisions to make before conception.
Using a Known Sperm Donor as a Lesbian Couple
A child-centred guide to legal parenthood, clinic and home routes, donor roles, screening, family language and the conversations to have before conception.
Donor-Conceived Siblings: Family Limits and Contact
A child-centred guide to donor sibling family limits, lasting records, medical updates, DNA discoveries and respectful contact now or in the future.
When a Known Donor Arrangement Changes: Relocation, New Partners and Conflict
A child-centred process for reviewing relocation, new relationships, missed contact and conflict without letting changed circumstances silently rewrite the arrangement.
Known Donor Boundaries: Photos, Social Media, Partners and Extended Family
Set child-centred boundaries for photographs, social media, introductions, new partners, extended family, privacy and changing relationships.
Sperm Donation Laws and Legal Parenthood: A Country-by-Country Guide
A clear comparison of sperm donor laws, legal parenthood and private versus clinic donation in the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Australia and the United States.