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Sunday, September 23, 2018


Posted by Patricia A. Sarles, MA, MLS, MSEd at 6:51 AM 39 comments:
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Patricia A. Sarles, MA, MLS, MSEd

I am a librarian and a consumer who dipped her toes very briefly into the world of ART. This list was very hard to compile as there are currently no uniform subject headings in the library world that a librarian can search under to find books written for children about assisted conception.

This list was compiled for two purposes. One, to be of assistance to parents looking for books to help them explain assisted conception to their children, and two, for librarians who would like to develop collections on this topic for their libraries.

The "approaches" to sharing information with donor offspring to which the annotations on this Web site refer, are based on the 2001 article by Ken Daniels and Petra Thorn in the journal Human Reproduction. And the "scripts" referred to in the annotations are based on the 2007 article by Kirstin Mac Dougall, et. al. in the journal Fertility & Sterility. Essentially, I am analyzing whether these books take a "child-conception" approach or a "family-building" approach, as well as analyzing what scripts are being used: "the helper," "spare parts," "families are made differently," "labor of love," and/or "nuts & bolts." Hopefully the annotations here, distinguishing these scripts and approaches, will help parents decide how they want to share their story with their children.

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A Rainbow Baby Story: The Rainbow After the Storm

A Rainbow Baby Story: The Rainbow After the Storm
A rainbow baby is a baby who is born after the mother has experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss.

Mutter, Spender, Kind

Mutter, Spender, Kind
Wenn Singlefrauen Familien gründen by Anya Steiner

Finding Our Families

Finding Our Families
A First-of-Its-Kind Book for Donor-Conceived People and Their Families by Wendy Kramer and Naomi Cahn

Biological Relatives

Biological Relatives
IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship by Sarah Franklin

Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates

Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates
Answering Tough Questions and Building Strong Families by Diane Ehrensaft

The New Kinship

The New Kinship
Constructing Donor-Conceived Families by Naomi Cahn

Relative Strangers

Relative Strangers
Family Life, Genes and Donor Conception by Petra Nordqvist and Carol Smart

The Baby Chase

The Baby Chase
How Surrogacy is Transforming the American Family by Leslie Morgan Steiner

Everything Conceivable

Everything Conceivable
How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World by Liza Mundy

Tell Me a Story

Tell Me a Story
Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World by Elaine Reese

My Articles

Librarians at a Loss for Helping Donor Offspring

Who Am I Really? Donor Offspring Characters in Young Adult Fiction

Where Did I Really Come From? Assisted Reproductive Technology in Self-Published Children's Picture Books

Using Documentary Photography Books with Reluctant Readers in the High School Library

Librarians at a Loss to Help Donor Offspring (AASL Blog Post)

Library of Congress Finally Acknowledges Donor Offspring: (But this is only a beginning) (AASL Blog Post)

Factsheets on Talking with Children about their Donor Origins by Jean Benward and Patricia Mendell

  • Talking with children about ovum donation
  • Talking with children about sperm donation

My Other Blogs

Gay-Themed Picture Books for Children

Young Adult Books About Being Donor-Conceived

Coffee-Table and Documentary Photography Books for Children and Teenagers

Articles on the Web

  • A longitudinal study of recipients’ views and experiences of intra-family egg donation
  • Beyond the nuclear family
  • Children and Identity
  • Children Conceived by Gamete Donation: Psychological Adjustment and Mother-child Relationships at Age 7
  • Disclosure behaviour and intentions among 111 couples following treatment with oocytes or sperm from identity-release donors: follow-up at offspring age 1–4 years
  • Disclosure of Donor Insemination: Parental Attitudes
  • Donor insemination: exploring the experience of treatment and intention to tell
  • Experiences of offspring searching for and contacting their donor siblings and donor
  • Families Created by Gamete Donation: Disclosure and Family Functioning when Children are Seven Years Old
  • Family building in donor conception: parents’ experiences of sharing information
  • Gamete donation: parents’ experiences of searching for their child's donor silbings and donor
  • Genes r us? Making sense of genetic and non-genetic relationships following anonymous donor insemination
  • How parents whose children have been conceived with donor gametes make their disclosure decision: contexts, influences, and couple dynamics
  • How the Internet is Reshaping Assisted Reproduction: From Donor Offspring Registries to Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
  • Maternal disclosure attitudes and practices of ICSI/IVF conception vis-a`-vis a 5-year-old child
  • Parental information sharing with donor insemination conceived offspring: a follow-up study
  • Parents dilemmas in sharing donor insemination conception stories with their children
  • Parents’ contributions to the narrative identity of offspring of donor-assisted conception
  • Perspectives, experiences and choices of parents of children conceived following oocyte donation
  • Q&A with Jerry Rothwell, director of 'Donor Unknown'
  • School-aged children of donor insemination: a study of parents’ disclosure patterns
  • Sharing genetic origins information in donor assisted conception
  • Sharing information with donor insemination offspring: a child-conception versus a family-building approach
  • Sperm Donor Kids Speak Out: Our Biological Dads Matter to Us
  • Strategies for disclosure: How parents approach telling their children that they were conceived with donor gametes
  • Telling the story: parents’ scripts for donor offspring
  • The birth of donor offspring rights in the USA?
  • The child's advocate in donor conception: the telling of the story
  • The new kinship

ART Organizations

  • ACeBabes (UK)
  • AccessAustralia (Australia)
  • Adam (Czech Republic)
  • American Fertility Association (USA)
  • Association MAIA (France)
  • Association of patients’ trust “Children will be!” (Ukraine)
  • Associazion Cerco um Bimbo (Italy)
  • Associazione Amica Cicogna (Italy)
  • Associazione Madre Provetta (Italy)
  • Associazione-Mammeonline (Italy)
  • British Infertility Counselling Association
  • CIDER (Cocuk Istiyorum Dayanisma Dernegi) (Turkey)
  • CONCEBIR (Argentina)
  • Chen - Fertility Patients Association (Israel)
  • Donor Conception Network (UK)
  • FREYA (Netherlands)
  • Fertility NZ (New Zealand)
  • Fine (Japan)
  • Friends of Finrrage - Network for Infertile Women in Japan
  • IAAC (Infertility Awareness Association of Canada)
  • Infertility Network (Canada)
  • Lapsettomien Simpukka tuki ry (Finland)
  • Magna Mater Hellenic Fertility (Greece)
  • NISIG (National Infertility Support & Information Group) (Ireland)
  • Queremos ser padres (Chile)
  • RESOLVE, Inc.: The National Infertility Association (USA)
  • Tilvera samtok um ofrojosemi (Iceland)
  • VARTA (Australia)
  • Verein Kinderwunsch (Switzerland)
  • Wunschkind (Germany)
  • lainfertilidad.com (Spain)
  • Ønskebarn (Norway)

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