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A donor offspring, or donor conceived person (DCP), is conceived via the donation of sperm (sperm donation) or ova (egg donation), or both (either from two separate donors or from a couple). For donor conceived people, the biological parent (s) who donated sperm or eggs are not legally recognized as parents and do not appear on their birth ...
A dibling, a portmanteau of donor sibling, [1] [2] or donor-conceived sibling, [3] or donor-sperm sibling, [4] is one of two or more individuals who are biologically connected through donated eggs or sperm.
Some donors are non-anonymous, but most are anonymous, i.e. the donor conceived person doesn't know the true identity of the donor. Still, he/she may get the donor number from the fertility clinic. If that donor had donated before, then other donor conceived people with the same donor number are thus genetic half-siblings.
Trying to decide on a sperm donor means sorting through a dizzying amount of information.
Some people conceived by sperm donors are pushing for regulation, citing the risks to society caused by extremely prolific donors. Serial sperm donors capitalize on lack of regulation, creating ...
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The Donor Sibling Registry is a website and non-profit US organization serving donor offspring, sperm donors, egg donors and other donor conceived people. [1] It was founded in September 2000 by a mother-and-son team, Wendy Kramer and Ryan Kramer of Nederland, Colorado .
Sperm banks often provide services which enable an individual to have subsequent pregnancies by the same donor, but equally, people may choose to have children by a number of different donors. Sperm banks sometimes enable an individual to choose the sex of their child, enabling even greater control over the way families are planned.