Scattered Seeds: In Search of Family and Identity in the Sperm Donor Generation
Scattered Seeds: In Search of Family and Identity in the Sperm Donor Generation by Jacqueline Mroz
English | June 6th, 2017 | ASIN: B01M1NMJX6, ISBN: 1580056164 | 250 pages | EPUB | 1.44 MB
English | June 6th, 2017 | ASIN: B01M1NMJX6, ISBN: 1580056164 | 250 pages | EPUB | 1.44 MB
As typical as donor-conceived children have become, with at least a million such children in the US alone, their experiences are still unusual in many ways. In Scattered Seeds, journalist and writer Jacqueline Mroz looks at the growth of sperm donation and assisted reproduction and how it affects the children who are born, the women who buy and use the sperm to have kids, and the sperm donors who donate their genetic material to help others procreate. With empathy and in-depth analysis, Scattered Seeds explores the sociology, psychology, and anthropology surrounding those connected with fertility procedures today and looks back at the history that brought us to this point.
The personal stories in this book will put a human face on the issues and help to illuminate this country's controversial and troubling unregulated fertility industry—an industry that has been compared to the Wild, Wild West, where anything goes. What is the human cost of our country's unregulated…
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