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I wasn’t really familiar with the topic of DI until taking this course and reading Katrina Hargreaves article on it. I came across some interesting clips, and also found out there was a major Hollywood film starring, Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore about this topic that was released just last year (2010), here is a preview:Film Preview.

The film is about a lesbian couple who choose to use DI to have children, when the children get old enough they decide to get in touch with the man who donated the sperm, technically their biological father and inform him that they are his children. The more time the children want to spend with the man, the more jealous their “mothers” become. Of course in Hollywood you can always expect the happy ending, everyone will get along and they will become one happy family, but that is not how it always turns out in real life.

Whether to tell the child about their biological parents is a very difficult decision. A lot of factors have to be taken into account, the psychological ramifications of such information, the biological parents interests or lack their of in the child’s life, the possible strain that telling the child will put into your relationship with them, and things of that nature. So many things can go wrong, the list is endless, this is why some couples feel it is better to just leave the child in the dark and have them continue to think that you are his birth parents, to avoid any confusion and the avalanche of emotions that come along with dropping such heavy information on the child. Personally I feel they have a right to know, but every couple has a right to approach it whichever way they deem fit.