By admin on May 07, 2008

We’ve been working on fine tuning the DSR database so that we can
better understand the who, where and when of matched people. Here is
one piece of new information:

The DSR has matched people in the US, Denmark, England, Canada,
Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong,
Israel, Korea, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, S. Africa, Sweden and Switzerland.

Many of these people used US sperm banks, but some did use local
clinics and sperm and were still able to match. What we have been
seeing lately is that many clinics outside the US use US sperm banks,
but do not tell the parents. This makes watching for matches a much
more challenging job!


By admin on April 12, 2008
If any of you are wondering whether or not the donor conception industry favors the idea of donor-conceived people being able to connect with their genetic relatives, Dr. Adamson, who is president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (overseers of the sperm banks) said at the March 2008 symposium, “Registries can be discriminating,” indicating that a lot of traditionally conceived children don’t know their parentage, so why should gamete donor children? As long as this type of logic passes in a room full of medical, mental health, and legal professionals, we are not going to see any movement.


By admin on March 30, 2008

We have a television production company interested in speaking with donor conceived people, parents and donors who are willing to tell their stories of searching and/or finding biological relatives. Particularly, if anyone out there is interested, who has connected on the DSR but not met yet, this could be an amazing opportunity. Please contact Wendy if interested.