Building Your Family: The Complete Guide to Donor Conception - Couverture rigide

Schuman, Lisa; Leondires, Mark

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ISBN 10 : 1250868262 ISBN 13 : 9781250868268

Editeur : St. Martin's Essentials, 2023

Synopsis

Building Your Family is the first all-inclusive guide by experts to cover both the medical and emotional aspects of becoming a parent through donor conception.

Once shrouded in secrecy, modern families built with the assistance of egg or sperm donation are growing in numbers and voice. As more people see friends, family members and celebrities use donor conception to build their families, the process has become much more mainstream and accepted. The number of donor sperm programs and egg banks have grown enormously in the past decade and the news is full of stories of athletes, journalists, and entertainers like Elton John, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Camille Guaty, and Natalie Imbruglia, who have used donor gametes to have their children.

The authors, Lisa Schuman, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist, and Dr. Mark Leondires, a board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist, have decades of experience working closely with patients who have chosen to use donated eggs and sperm, as well as their own personal stories of fertility treatment and non-genetic parenthood.

Together, they walk readers through the medical, emotional, and genetic aspects of donor conception, common ethical dilemmas, managing relationships with friends and family members, ways to tell donor-conceived children about their origins, and strategies to cope with the challenges of fertility treatment.

In a compassionate and authoritative narrative, they help hopeful parents-to-be find their way forward with confidence and joy.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

LISA SCHUMAN, LCSW, is a family building expert, award winning researcher, and therapist. She was the only mental health professional chosen to testify to the State Senate Judiciary Committee on the subject of legalizing compensated surrogacy in New York and is often called upon to lecture at corporations, schools and advocacy groups. As the founding Director of The Center for Family Building, she guides people around the world to build the families of their dreams. Ms. Schuman lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children.

MARK LEONDIRES, MD, is the Founder and Medical Director at Illume Fertility and the Founder of Gay Parents To Be, a leading family-building resource for the LGBTQ+ community. Dr. Leondires resides in Connecticut with his partner and their two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St. Martin's Essentials
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250868262
• ISBN 13: 9781250868268
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible