At just 10 years, my daughter Greta can explain, in language appropriate to her age, donor conception. But while Greta understands what a sperm donor is, her response is almost always met with, “What’s a donor?”
The fact is, while the concepts of IVF and donor conception are quite natural to my kids because we have talked about it since they were babies, Greta and Aurora are being raised in a world where sex education ignores it, or at best skirts around it…
