Answer to “Anyone Out There?” re egg donor kids

There just aren’t nearly as many offspring created through the use of donor eggs as donor sperm, and the technology is much, much more recent. I wouldn’t put a different “voice” to those kids other than the usual individual perspective. Why do you think it would be different?

If you take out the population of children whose parents lied about that key fact of their existence, what it adds up to is just lack of numbers. Based on all of the research that the Donor Sibling Registry has completed, there’s no reason to think there’d be any difference.

A lot of DC people express discomfort with the clinical aspect of their conception. In other words, you grow up learning “when a mommy and a daddy love each other” stories, and that doesn’t fit ART, petri dishes, and so forth. So I guess it’s possible that IVF babies, donor sperm or egg or both, feel that aspect more keenly. I don’t know. I take for granted that I was created by the parents I grew up with, probably during a snowstorm that hit on mom’s birthday.

Technology has raced ahead of human emotional and mental capacity.