Lauren-it is such a difficult and personal decision about whether to tell the child. I think the decision is even more difficult/confusing than with sperm donation, because all fathers provide sperm and don't carry or give birth to their child, but with DE the child is grown, carried and birthed by their mother and not the donor, so it brings up the whole debate as to what determines motherhood-the person that provides the DNA? or the person that not only raises the child but carried them inside her and gave birth to them?

What is the stigma with DE? Maybe I am just naive, but I can't think of any reason why.

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