Review looks at why egg donors donate and what they want to know afterward
Oocyte donors’ motivations for donation and expectations about post-donation contact with donor-conceived individuals: a systematic review. (Fusco, 2026)
Donor Conception Journal Club
Insights from research on family building with donor eggs, sperm, and embryos. We share digestible summaries of peer-reviewed research examining the experiences of donor-conceived individuals, donors, parents, and family-building professionals.
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Re-Share: Who Else Needs to Know? Navigating Disclosure About Your Child’s Donor Conception Status
Over the summer, I ran into another mom from my kid’s class.
UK Sperm Donors' Perspectives on Identity-Release Donation, Relatedness, and Future Contact
The opposite of a step parent — The genetics without any of the emotion: ‘sperm donors’ reflections on identity-release donation and relatedness. (Graham, 2022)
Donor-Conceived Adults and Parents Describe Life After Discovering Insemination Fraud
Experiences of insemination fraud: Discovering and navigating unexpected and entangled connections. (Indekeu, 2026)
A Year Inside Online Sperm Donation: What One Study Observed
Building trust in a suspicious network: findings from a one-year digital ethnography of five online sperm donation platforms. (Smith, 2026)
A Look at Identity, Disclosure, and Stress in Donor-Conceived Adults
Perceived stress in donor-conceived people: The role of disclosure pathway and identity. (Silva, 2026)
DC Journal Club - July Round Up
What caught my eye at ESHRE and other research
2 out of 3 of oocyte donors chose identity-release at one clinic in 2025
The Shift Toward Openness: Meeting the Needs of Donors and Families in the Changing Landscape. (Alsup, 2026)
Iranian ART providers perceptions of third party reproduction and fertility tourism
Ethical challenges in reproductive donation tourism: A qualitative study of clinicians’ perspectives in Iran. (Sarafraz, 2026)
1 in 40 online egg donor applicants is accepted at a US commercial bank
An analysis of the outcome of 2,443 women applying to be donors at a commercial egg bank in the USA. (Pacey, 2026)
Reimagining how fertility clinics prepare parents for donor conception
“Why do I need to meet with a mental health professional?”: A Class Format as a Novel Approach to Delivering Gamete Recipient Education. (Alsup, 2026)
A look at how trans and non-binary people negotiate relationships with known donors
Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people’s accounts of sperm donors and their relationships to children. (Riggs, 2023)
What Caught My Eye from ESHRE 2026
Rundown of research presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology