Showing posts with label Parents Via Egg Donation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parents Via Egg Donation. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Survey: Families through Gamete Donation Language

One of the challenges and frustrations many parents have with Third Party Reproduction is the language and definitions associated with egg donation. 
 
The Language Committee of Parents Via Egg Donation a nonprofit organization, is creating a document to reflect the language of families created through gamete donation. Just as Positive Adoption Language (PAL) finally legitimized and clarified the role of birth and adoptive families, so too, do we intend to educate as to how and what to call the various participants of families created through assisted reproductive options.

The intent is to distribute this document to the media and to others so that journalists will have appropriate language to use in describing our families. To do this, we would like to know what language you as parents, siblings, and professionals in the field of family building prefer to use.

Answers to these questions are completely anonymous. Please help us know what language is appropriate to use when describing families of gamete donation. The entire survey should take approximately 15 minutes.

The survey can be found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/gametedonationlanguage
*** When you take the survey please remember to click NEXT at the bottom of the screen ad continue on to the second page. There is another page with another set of questions. I think there are 30 some questions in all. 
 
Thank You.

Carole Lieber Wilkins, MFT and Britta Dinsmore, Ph.D., Co-Chairs
Parents Via Egg Donation

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The Egg Donation Dilemma - Compensation Vs. Enticement

Pamela Madsen is one of my favorite bloggers who always gets to the issue at hand and doesn't hold back with her voice and beliefs. I came across her post on Monday and thought it provided great insight. It also included wonderful, detailed comments from an donor egg agency owner, Amy Demma and Marna Gatlin, a mother via egg donation and founder of Parents via Egg Donation. Their comments are so very poignant for prospective parents and donors, alike. I hope that their voices resonate with you or give you some pause with regard to egg donation and the compensation vs. enticement debate. Please take a look at the link below for the full blog and comments. Feel free to add your own comments.

The Egg Donation Dilemma - Compensation Vs. Enticement