Northeast Assisted Fertility Group has been featured in a front page story in the Boston Globe, dated April 7, 2009. This is just the latest in what has been an ongoing public dialogue about the “surge” in egg donation.
Boston Globe: “Recession spurs egg and sperm donations”
“What we’ve seen is that the economy seems to have inspired more people to look at alternative ways to earning money,” said Sanford M. Benardo, president of Northeast Assisted Fertility Group, a company that recruits, screens, and matches women who want to become egg donors or surrogate mothers. “We’re seeing people who might not otherwise do this but for their economic condition.”
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April 16th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
For the folks that I see becoming parents through egg donation, the question isn’t “should we tell” but “when, how and what should we say?” I tell them that I see their goal to be “I always knew”–that they should raise a child who can’t remember a point of being “told” but rather, is someone who “always knew.”
“Always knowing” can be achieved in different ways. Most people I see prefer to being “sprinkling in” references to egg donation when they are talking to their very young child. For example, they might say, “Let’s look at pictures of when I was pregnant with you. I was so excited and so happy that Jennifer helped us become a family.” Others prefer to wait until their child is 5 or 6 and to try to explain to them, in language they can understand, about egg donation. When they are older, children told at this age tend to say “I always knew.”
The issue probably isn’t whether you begin discussions at ages 2 or 3 or 5–it’s that you do so with confidence and a feeling of pride in how you built your family.