Below are a few of the articles and publications written by Carole LieberWilkins in PDF format.
Building Relationships with Birth Parents
Why Does My Doctor Want Me to See a Therapist
Family Building Language
RESOURCES
This is NOT an exhaustive list and is meant to get you started on your own research into what your family may need.
WEBSITES/ORGANIZATIONS/ARTICLES
American Society for Reproductive Medicine (www.asrm.org)
Choice Moms (www.choicemoms.org)
Donor Conception Network (www.dcnetwork.org)
Donor Conceived Community (www.donorconceivedcommunity.org)
Donor Sibling Registry (donorsiblingregistry.com)
Em.Power by Moxi (empowerbymoxi.com) for Embryo Donors & Recipients
INCIID – The International Council on Infertility Information Dissemination (www.inciid.org)
Parents via Egg Donation (www.pved.org)
RESOLVE (www.resolve.org)
Ten Things Parents of Donor Conceived People Need to Know (https://www.usdcc.org/2022/09/06/10-things-parents-of-donor-conceived-people-need-to-know/)
The Right to Know (www.righttoknow.us)
Single Mothers by Choice (www.singlemothersbychoice.org)
U.S. Donor Conceived Council (www.usdcc.org)
We are Donor Conceived (www.wearedonorconceived.com)
We are Egg Donors (www.weareeggdonors.org)
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
A Gift for Little Tree by Colleen D.C. Marquez (focuses mainly on adoption stories)
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
Birds of a Different Feather by Kelly Wendel
Building My Family: A Story of Egg Donation and Surrogacy by Carrie Eichberg, Psy.D
Cookies and Cake & The Families We Make by Jennifer Egan and Robin Gulak
Daddy and Pop (book and CD), Tina Rella and Monica Meza; Produced by Molly Summer
Extra by Kaeleigh MacDonald
Families Come in Many Forms by Bella Mei Wong
Happy Together by Julie Marie (a series, with books about many family constellations and family building processes)
Hope and Will Have a Baby by Irene Celcer (a series, with books about many family constellations and family building processes)
I Am Loved Right Where I Am by Jason Galvez
Little Treasure by Anat Georgy (single mother by choice)
Mommy, Did I Grow in Your Tummy? Where Some Babies Come From by Elaine Gordon
Mommy, Was Your Tummy Big? By Carolina Nadel
My Donor Story by Sharon Leya
One More Giraffe by Kim Noble
Our Story by the Donor Conception Network (dcnetwork.org)-( a series, with books about many family constellations and family building processes)-Available at the DC Network and Amazon
Phoebe’s Family: A Story about Egg Donation by Linda Stamm and Joan Clipp
Sometimes It Takes Three to Make a Baby by Kate Bourne
The Baby Kangaroo Treasure Hunt, a gay parenting story by Carmen Martinez Jover and Rosemary Martinez
The Chicken Who Couldn’t Lay Eggs by Sabine-Julie De Brus
The Pea That Was Me by Kimberly Kluger Bell (a series for many family constellations and family building processes
The Secret Code Inside You: All About Your DNA Hardcover by Rajani LaRocca
Training Wheels: How did I get here? By Chris Barrett & Sally Hunter (open embryo donation)
What Makes a Baby? By Cory Silverberg
What Matters Most: a Children’s Book about Families by Kristin Carter
You Were Meant To Be! By Sherry Keen & Rosemarie Gillen
You Were Made for Me by Sheri Sturniolo
We Are Family by Patricia Hegarty
Zach’s Safari by Christy Tyner (two mom family)
Donor Conceived Siblings
Meeting My Brother, by Jennifer L. Dukoff (donor conceived siblings meeting and becoming family)
Children Raised by Donors
My Story, My Gift: How I Became A Sperm Donor, by Nina Barnsley and Stephanie Clarkson (for children raised by man who was a sperm donor with anonymous recipients)
My Story, My Gift: How I Became A Sperm Donor, by Nina Barnsley and Stephanie Clarkson (for children raised by man who was a sperm donor with known recipients)
My Story, My Gift: How I Became An Egg Donor, by Nina Barnsley and Stephanie Clarkson (for children raised by woman who was an egg donor with anonymous recipients)
My Story, My Gift: How I Became An Egg Donor, by Nina Barnsley and Stephanie Clarkson (for children raised by woman who was an egg donor with known recipients)
My Story, My Gift: How We Became Embryo Donors, by Nina Barnsley and Stephanie Clarkson (for children raised by parents who were embryo donors with anonymous recipients)
My Story, My Gift: How We Became Embryo Donors, by Nina Barnsley and Stephanie Clarkson (for children raised by parents who were embryo donors with known recipients)
Books for Parents
Children by Michelle Giroux, Juliet Guichon and Ian Mitchell
Continuing the Conversation-The Donor Conception Network (for talking with young people and adults age 12 and above)
Experiences of Donor Conception: Parents, Offspring, and Donors Through the Years by Caroline Lorbach
Go Ask Your Father by Lennard J. Davis
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn
Let’s Talk About Egg Donation by Carole LieberWilkins and Marna Gatlin
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh by Carl Zimmer
Scattered Seeds by Jacqueline Mroz
Telling & Talking– The Donor Conception Network-( a series, with books about many family constellations and family building processes for children of all ages)
The Ones We Choose by Julie Clark
The Right to Know One’s Origins: Assisted Human Reproduction and The Best Interests of
Children by Michelle Giroux, Juliet Guichon and Ian Mitchell
The Stranger in My Genes by Bill Griffeth
Three Makes a Baby by Jana Rupnow