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What Are Healthy Boundaries in an Open Adoption?
Many embryo adoptions are done using an open adoption format. That means the families have the option of staying in contact with each other as the child grows up, and the child has the opportunity to meet their biological family in the future if they wish. Both...
Couples Weary of Domestic Adoption Turn to Embryo Adoption
Domestic adoption can be an incredible choice for many families, but for others, it simply isn’t the right option. Many couples become weary of domestic adoption because of stories they hear about biological parents returning for their children. It’s true that some...
Judge Rules That Embryos Are to be Destroyed After Divorce
The world has been watching a landmark case regarding frozen embryos in the San Francisco area. The couple had the embryos frozen when the woman, Mimi Lee, was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and wanted to preserve her chance of having children in the future. When the...
More Adopting Families Staying in Contact With Bio Families
Open adoption is becoming the standard in the United States. There are over 15,000 infant adoptions in the United States each year, and according to the Huffington Post, more than half of those adoptions are “fully open.” That means both the adopting and biological...
Are There Long-Term Effects on Children Born from Frozen Embryos?
One of the concerns some couples have about embryo adoption is the long-term effects it could have on their child, themselves, and their family as a whole as the child gets older, particularly into their teen years. Finally, a study presented at the American Society...
When Fertility Treatment Options Don’t Work, What’s Next?
Unfortunately, many couples must eventually face the question of what to do when their fertility treatment options aren’t working. Sometimes the treatments simply won’t work for their specific type of infertility, sometimes couples have to stop treatments for...
Videos for Families Considering Donating Frozen Embryos
If you are one of the tens of thousands of people who have remaining frozen embryos in storage, you may be trying to decide what you want to do with them. Discard them? Give them to science? Or donate them to another family wanting to adopt them? The choices aren’t...
3 Myths of Embryo Donation
Embryo donation is getting a lot of attention in the media right now as an affordable, safe family building alternative, but with all the stories there are a lot of myths out there, too. Discover three of the most common myths and what the truth is behind them:...
Why Infertility Isn’t Always a Factor in Embryo Adoption
For the majority of couples exploring the embryo adoption option for building their families, they’ve come to a clinic or adoption agency after a long struggle with infertility. Embryo adoption gives them an affordable, highly successful way to have the baby they’ve...
Why Embryo Donation Doesn’t Come With Compensation
While it’s true that human egg donors and sperm donors are compensated for their time and effort, currently there are no compensation plans for donor embryos when they are given to a clinic or an agency for adoption.Embryos donated for reproduction are given by...
Sisters Frozen as Embryos Reunite to Become Best Friends
When Allison and Tom Benassi were asked what they’d like to do with their leftover embryos after their in vitro fertilization treatments were complete, they decided to donate them. They’d been trying to have a child for five years before they had daughter Jamie and...
Study Confirms IVF Options are Encouraging More Women to Wait
The average age of a woman when she starts her family has been slowing climbing since the 1970’s. Today the average age is 25.1, higher than it has ever been and still climbing. The Centers for Disease Control reported in 2014 that the number of women over age 35 who...
Three Reasons Embryo Adoption is On the Rise
If it seems like you are hearing more and more about embryo adoption, you aren’t wrong. Not only has media coverage of the alternative family building method increased, so have the number of adoptions taking place each year. A steady increase over the last several...
Will an Embryo Donor Family Choose You?
When you donate your leftover frozen embryos for adoption, many agencies will give you the opportunity to have a say in which family will be able to adopt them. This gives you an opportunity to ensure that the family receiving your donor embryos will be able to...
Is Embryo Adoption a Fertility Solution for Pro-Life Catholics?
The Catholic Church takes a firm stance on in vitro fertilization: it’s a non-starter for infertile Catholic couples. The church issued a document in 1987 called the Donum Vitae, or “The Gift of Life,” which clearly outlined its stance on alternative family building...