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Financial barriers and desire for personal autonomy drive decisions to choose known donors
Home-insemination: the motivations and experiences of same-sex and gender diverse couples using self-insemination and known donors to conceive in…
 • Laura Runnels
How donor-conceived people feel about discovering they have multiple donor half-siblings
Donor-conceived persons’ experiences of (possibly) having multiple donor half-siblings: A systematic literature review and thematic synthesis…
 • Laura Runnels
Guest Post: The Trip That Changed Everything
Nick Ludwig on using psilocybin to process late discovery and find his voice
 • Laura Runnels
From the Stacks: Quick Takes on Books, Pods & Docs (January 2026)
Two DCP memoirs, two research deep-dives, and the story of a sperm bank
 • Laura Runnels
DC Journal Club - December Round Up
Take our first survey!
 • Laura Runnels
10 questions I wish researchers would explore
And our first DCJC survey!
 • Laura Runnels

December 2025

Research identifies key barriers and motivations for Scottish sperm donors
Attitudes Towards Sperm Donation in Scotland. (Kasirye, 2025)
 • Laura Runnels
Nearly one-third of UK egg donation parents didn’t understand identity-release laws
“I’m the only mum she knows”: Parents’ understanding of, and feelings about, identity-release egg donation. (Lysons, 2022)
 • Laura Runnels
Three distinct strategies emerge among gay fathers navigating conversations with donor-conceived children
“Is mommy getting a day off?” Gay fathers’ approaches to socialization around family diversity and children’s surrogacy origins. (Carone, 2025)
 • Laura Runnels
Black women face systemic barriers throughout fertility treatment journeys, major qualitative study reveals
Mapping fertility trajectories: An endarkened narrative inquiry of Black women’s fertility experiences and pathways through infertility treatment…
 • Laura Runnels
Call for Guest Posts
Bringing Community Voices to Research Synthesis
 • Laura Runnels
Study reveals how medical practitioners’ conceptual frameworks restrict access to donor treatments
Egg donation beyond the standard model: Fertility practitioners’ clinical reasoning in single, combined and shared treatment options in Sweden…
 • Laura Runnels
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