{"id":4932,"date":"2020-09-09T11:29:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T02:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:28:18","slug":"0909-2","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/events\/0909-2\/","title":{"rendered":"9 SEP, Seminar &#8220;Family Building by\u00a0Donor Conception and Donor&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IGS Seminar, &#8220;Family Building by\u00a0Donor Conception and Donor Linking&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abstract\uff1a<br \/>\nConsistent with the view that donor-conceived people benefit from having access to identifying information about their sperm and egg donors, a growing number of countries including Australia have introduced laws that mandate identity-release donors. Donor linking is the process by which sperm and egg donors, recipient parents and donor-conceived people gain access to identifying information about each other. The state of Victoria, Australia is unique in that its donor-linking laws allow all donor-conceived adults, donors, recipient parents and descendants of donor-conceived people to apply for information about each other. At the same time, it is increasingly common for donor-conceived adults and recipient parents in Australia to locate sperm donors and siblings conceived from the same donor through use of do-it-yourself methods such as direct to consumer genetic testing and social media.<br \/>\nIn this seminar, based on early findings from our Australian Research Council funded project into donor-linked families, I consider how and why Australians undertake a search for a donor relative using both government-funded registers and DIY strategies. I discuss the strengths and challenges of the Victorian model of donor linking along with the information and support needs of donor-conceived adults, recipient parents (mostly single mothers by choice) and sperm donors.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker \uff1a<br \/>\nDeborah Dempsey\uff08Swinburne University of Technology, AUS)<br \/>\n&#8220;Families of Strangers? Donor-linked families in Victoria, Australia &#8220;<br \/>\nModerator\uff1a Yukari Semba (IGS, Ochanomizu University)<\/p>\n<p>Prior registration required, Registration Form<br \/>\nLanguage: English, consecutive interpretation (Naoki Matsumura, Colts Works)<\/p>\n<p>Organizer: Institute for Gender Studies (IGS), Ochanomizu University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4935,"parent":0,"template":"","events_category":[120],"class_list":["post-4932","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","events_category-events-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"events_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events_category?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}