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- Kathleen R. LaBounty - kathleen.ruby.labounty@gmail.com
- http://childofastranger.blogspot.com/
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Child of a Stranger by Kathleen LaBounty is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
I am the child of a stranger, produced through an anonymous sperm donation at BCM. Despite writing all 600 men from my donor's former medical school yearbooks, receiving 250 responses, and going through 18 DNA tests, I have yet to find my missing family. While many other countries banned anonymous donations by the late 1980s to early 1990s and instead only use donors willing to release their identity, anonymous egg and sperm donations are still allowed and frequently practiced in the U.S.
***If you found this site through searching the internet, you may get stuck on one blog entry. Please click on the title of my blog - Child of a Stranger: Conception through Anonymous Sperm Donation - to see additional writings. At the end, there is a FAQ section addressing the questions most frequently asked to me. If you have suggestions for blog entries, ideas on finding my paternal family or brother with Down Syndrome, or just would like to talk, email me at kathleen.ruby.labounty@gmail.com. Please send media requests here as well.***
Child of a Stranger by Kathleen LaBounty is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Links to A Few Past Blogs and Media (Much More In Archives Below)
- Donor Babies Search For Their Anonymous Fathers: Houston Press
- FAQs, Needed Legislation, and Resources
- Kathleen's Interview on The Today Show
- Kathleen's NPR's Radio Lab Interview: Fatherhood (Segment Later played on This American Life and in Sweden)
- My Story: Search Through Yearbooks
- Oprah Recap: The Ultimate Reunion
- Search for My Half-Brother with Down Syndrome
- Who Am I? Nature Versus Nurture
Welcome to My Site!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you find this site useful and interesting. I have tried to provide information about donor conception and my views as a donor-conceived person. I always enjoy hearing from those interested in or affected by the topic. Feel free to comment about my posts or to send me a message.
Followers
Articles and Studies
- Are You Thinking of Donating Sperm?: Article from DSR
- B.C. Court Issues Injunction in Class-Action Over Sperm, Egg Donor Births: Article About Olivia Pratten
- Babies Grow Up (And Other Things to Consider About Adoption and Donor Assistance): Article by Robin Allen and Michelle Hester
- Child of a Stranger: 2007 Article by Kathleen
- Donated Generation: Article by Cheryl Miller
- Donor Offspring May Feel Betrayal or Anger: Article from DSR Regarding Need for Early Disclosure
- Gamete Donation: Parents' Experiences of Searching for Their Child's Donor Siblings and Donor: Human Reproduction
- I Could Have 300 Siblings: Article by Jo Rose
- Informing Offspring of Their Conception by Gamete Donation: Article by the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- Inside the Mind of the Octuplets’ Father, by Dr. Keith Ablow
- Octuplets' Mom Seeks Online Donations: CNN Article About Nadya Suleman, Mother of 14
- Regulation or Free Markets? - Article About Lack of Regulation Within Gamete Donation
- Sarah and Tom spent £25,000 to have an IVF baby because he was infertile. Then he walked out because he couldn't love a child that wasn't his. Daily Mail, 2009
- Surrogate Broker Closes; Clients’ Money is Gone - New York Times by Stephanie Saul (March 2009 article about lack of regulation)
- The Thread of Life's Passage: An op-ed by Margaret Somerville, Director of the Centre for Medicine and Ethics
- What Does It Mean to be a Donor Offspring? - Study in Human Reproduction
- Why I Regret Donating My Sperm: Article by Michael Linden
Television and Radio Interviews
- Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) Brave New Family, by Alison Motluk
- Houston Women Use Myspace to Reunite Families, FOX 26 News
- NPR Radio Lab's Fatherhood
- Oprah Recap, The Ultimate Reunion: When Dad is a Sperm Donor
- The Today Show Video: Looking For Sperm/Egg Donor Roots (Interviews with Wendy and Ryan Kramer, lawyer/mom Nanette Elster, Kathleen, etc)
- What Donor-Conceived Adults Want to Know: Choice Chat for Choice Moms (6-minute interview with Kathleen followed by 6 minute interview with Dr. Joanna Scheib)
Resources
- Bastard Nation: The Adoptee Rights Oganization
- Donor Sibling Registry
- Infertility Network of Canada
- My Story Related
- New Donor Sibling Registry (DSR) Brochure
- People Conceived Via Artificial Insemination (online group)
- Resolve: The National Infertility Association
- Scandinavian Seed Sibling Registry with members from England, Germany, Denmark and Sweden
- The United Kingdom Donor Conception Network
Blogs
- Children Have Rights
- Damian's Donated Generation: Blog
- Donor Conceived Perspectives: Voices of the Sperm Donor Conceived
- Having Been Adopted
- Life As Dad to Donor Insemination (DI) Kids, by Eric Schwartzman
- Lindsay's Confessions of a CryoKid: Blog
- The Missing Piece: Thoughts of an Adoptee
- Ungrateful Little Bastard (by an adoptee)
- Who Do You Think You Are?
- Whose Daughter
6 comments:
Congratulations Kathleen.
All the best with the pregnancy.
Congratulations!!
Huge congrats Kathleen!! Wonderful news :) :) :) :) :)
Congratulations, Kathleen! This is very joyful news.
Abundant blessings!
Sue
Hi, Kathleen! Congratulations on your sweet boy.
I am also donor conceived and am just now (I'm 36) thinking of trying to find out some medical history (if I can) I have three young children and want to know more about my own genetics but theirs as well. It was great to stumble upon your blog!
Natalie at Mommy on Fire
http://www.mommyonfire.com
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