• Talk to your child about their origins
• What you can find out about your child’s donor
• Apply for information

• Talk to your child about their origins

  

  If your child is donor conceived, telling them about their origins can be a sensitive topic to discuss. However, if done honestly and if discussed at the right time, the issue need not be a difficult one to broach.

  ...Talk to your child about their origins

• What you can find out about your child’s donor

  

  Parents of a donor-conceived child are able to access information on their child’s donor (and about any donor-conceived genetic siblings) from the HFEA or the clinic where they received treatment.

  ...What you can find out about your child’s donor

• Apply for information

  

  Once you have had a chance to think about what it may mean to access information from the HFEA, you are entitled to apply for details of your child's donor.

  ...Apply for information

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Page last updated: 10 February 2010

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