Blog posts from 2012

New iPad/iPhone App helps Navigate the Adoption Process

16 October, 2012

The Adoption App was created by Sharon Simons, an Adoptive Mom who, after successfully navigating the rigors and challenges of the adoption process, decided to craft an app to make the adoption process much easier for others. This comprehensive, y...

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Mum's story of buying her 7 year old gay son an 'I like boys' t-shirt

14 October, 2012

My oldest son has always been into fashion. When he was only five years old he already had a love of fedoras and "close-pants" (known to the rest of us as skinny jeans). When he started paying attention to what people were wearing on tel...

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More time is needed to make decision about sperm and egg donor annoymity in Australia

12 October, 2012

THE state government says it needs another six months to decide whether children of sperm and egg donors promised anonymity before 1988 should be able to know the identity of their biological parents. A recommendation that the government change t...

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Want to have a child? French TV producers want to speak to you

10 October, 2012

My name’s Agnès, a French journalist, in charge of a TV documentary, whose topic is: "The will of having a child". In other words: I have to tell the story of different couples or single « future parents », who didn'...

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68 year old mum of twins says she was too old to have IVF

08 October, 2012

Janet Maslin-Bosher’s twins turned ten a fortnight ago and the celebrations were predictably lively. She bought them matching scooters, chased along beside them as they rode them, prepared a birthday tea and took them to the theatre. The fes...

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What are your chances of getting pregnant? New formula predicts

06 October, 2012

A formula that predicts a woman’s chances of pregnancy has been devised by scientists. It combines information about how fertility drops with age with the length of time a woman has been trying to start a family, to come up with their odds o...

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Judge awards parenthood to gay dads after indian surrogate 'disappears'

03 October, 2012

The Telegraph and Daily Mail have today reported the international surrogacy case of D and L (2012). The case marks a legal first: the court agreeing to make a parental order after the surrogate mother could not be found to give her consent. We ar...

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Scratching lining of womb could double IVF success rates

01 October, 2012

British researchers found that gently scratching the lining of the womb a month before IVF treatment improved the chances of pregnancy. A review of research on the technique found that twice as many women became pregnant after the procedure than w...

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US bill to give equal rights for same-sex couples accessing fertility treatment

29 September, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO — California Governor Jerry Brown (D) on Friday signed a bill to ensure that women in same-sex relationships and single women can access fertility services on the same terms as women in opposite-sex relationships.Assembly Bill ...

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Danish sperm donor passes on severe genetic disease to five children

25 September, 2012

A Danish sperm donor passed a severe genetic disorder to five children after tests did not detect it and the fertilisation clinic failed to act on evidence that a baby had been diagnosed with the illness.The man, known only as "donor 7042&quo...

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