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Author Archives: oliviasview
Old explanations that don’t wash any more
The most important work I do for DC Network these days is counselling/mentoring parents of untold DC adults towards sharing origins information with their ‘children’. Situations can be more or less complex – parents may still be together and on … Continue reading
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Time to think: the missing component when choosing donor conception
I was listening to BBC Radio 4 the other day while I was getting dressed in the morning. The programme was about hands and more specifically about hand transplants. It was a fascinating subject but I didn’t think that it … Continue reading
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Unchanged in 10 years: mixed feelings and complexity
I started this blog in June 2011, so ten years ago. Going through my posts with a view to seeing what had changed and what had stayed the same over that time it didn’t take me long to find a … Continue reading
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It’s Complicated…
I love the front cover of the latest edition of the We Are Donor Conceived magazine/journal. It features a young woman with a full sleeve of colourful tattoos and next to her slightly turned head, the words, It’s Complicated. Nothing … Continue reading
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Too soon for completely open gamete donation?: how about contact by Letterbox in the meantime
I am delighted to introduce my first first guest blog writer. Jane Ellis is a long-standing colleague and friend who also has two adult children by sperm donation. She is now retired from her career as a social worker, latterly … Continue reading
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If anything other than completely open embryo donation is wrong, can egg and sperm donation be far behind?
I belong to several Facebook groups where donor conceived people (DCP), potential or actual parents of DCP and donors offer their perspectives and experiences of donor conception. Recently Marna Gatlin, founder of Parents Via Egg Donation (PVED), wrote a long … Continue reading
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That difficult word ‘donor’
In my blog of July 8th about the new Telling and Talking book, Continuing the Conversation I referred to introducing a new way (for parents) of thinking about the word ‘donor’. So many of us think and use this term … Continue reading
The difficult stuff parents of DC people ignore at their peril
As I write, holed up in the office at the top of the house where Walter and I are living at the moment, some ground-breaking filming is taking place on the ground floor. Parents of donor conceived people, their children … Continue reading
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Continuing the DC conversation with teenagers and young adults
Lockdown because of the Covid 19 pandemic has proved the perfect time to write, with my long-term colleague Jane, a booklet for parents of early-told donor conceived children who are now approaching or already in the teenage years. It is … Continue reading
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Donor Conception treatment on hold? This could be the time to do some good work
We are living in the strangest of times. Told to keep our distance from those we love but don’t share a home with as well as stay away from our colleagues and friends. Told not to leave the place we … Continue reading
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