Being Honest with children about donors
There hasn’t been a lot going on here lately so I’m trying to think of old topics that once gathered a lot of thoughts.
Well my husband and I were going through fertility treatments we were asked what our limits were. How far would we go. I was willing to go as far as an egg donor, my husband was not, he was willing to go only as far as <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">ivf</a> with our own eggs and sperm.
Before we got my son (from our 3rd <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">ivf</a> cycle) I was ready to consider an egg donor, thankfully though it never came to that. But...I felt the only way I could of used a donor was to keep it a secret from my family and the child. To raise the child and never tell them that the egg used was not mine. Thankfully it never came to this so I shared this thought with my mom. She said it was better for me to not to do, to be honest with the child and that it would change nothing.
Now I grew up thinking my sister and I had the same parents. At 16 they told us we had different dads. My sister immediately resented my dad, and hasn’t had a relationship with him since. She’s 36 now and refuses to talk to him. So I think this has something to do with my desire to never be honest. I felt my parents should of never told her.
What do you think...is it wrong to withhold that information? Is it worse or better for the child? What would you do?
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