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Title: Helping the Stork : The Choices and Challenges of Donor Insemination by Carol Frost Vercollone, Heidi Moss, Robert Moss ISBN: 0-02-861917-X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 07 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I wish there were more books on this subject!
Comment: This book was great. After doing much research, I've found that finding information on donor insemination is difficult. I knew so little about DI (donor insemination) that I wasn't even sure what questions to ask. This book gave me a lot of information and enough knowledge to make a list of good, informed questions to ask my doctor. I do agree with one reviewer that it focuses a bit too much on the emotional aspect, but DI is an emotional decision. I disagree with the reviewer who said this book pushes parents to not tell their child of their DI origins. I found it to be the opposite and it seemed to me that the authors were for telling the child of their conception.
I gave this book 4 stars because, even though it is a very good information source, there is a lot more they could have added, and a good deal they could have left out. More information on the medical and financial aspect of DI and fewer anecdotes would have given this book a 5 star rating in my opinion. All in all, it's an excellent book for someone just beginning the DI process and needing a basic guide.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book on Donor Insemination to date!!!
Comment: If there was only one thing I could say about the book Helping the Stork it would be "Why did it take so long for this book to be written?" Carol Frost Vercollone and Heidi and Robert Moss have written an excellent guide for those thinking about using donor insemination to build their families, and also for those who already have their famlies through DI. This book was written for others to explore the issues surrounding donor insemination and to help them come to their own decisions about this common but not openly talked about form of family building. The added bonus is that it is also written for families, friends and health professionals to help in their understanding of the concerns and the issues that DI families face. The authors, from their own personal experience with DI and through counselling others want to provide reassurance that DI can be a wonderfully positive way to build families. This book has an easy to read style and is filled with numerous personal anecdotes from others who have either gone through DI or have some knowledge of it. I felt this was the best part of the book, the connection with others, their advice, fears, thoughts and honesty which can only come from people directly involved with this process. For those of you thinking you are alone in using DI, this book can certainly offer some comfort in the personal stories of others and the authors obvious intimate knowledge of this topic. The book goes through the various steps of DI, the decision making, issues of privacey and disclosure, and how to go about initiating the DI process. The authors are careful to try to cover issues concerning all individuals who may be using DI, including married couples, lesbians and single women. Also valuable in the book is the resource list and the bibliography. I'd like to share this passage from the book which I felt was it's strongest message. "Our goal, both in writing this book and in our counselling, is to change social attitudes toward DI so much that if you do tell, you can feel more confident that your child will ultimately view this news positively, not negatively. It may never be OK that there was so little donor information provided or that your family began with such suffering for the parents, but you'll certainly get across just how wanted your child was." Helping the Stork has been a long awaited for book that will hopefully do just that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thank good ness for this book!
Comment: This book was a wonderful tool for my husband and I when we were exploring DI as an option. This is the one book that truly addresses our unique infertility situation. None of the other infertility books spend more than a page talking about using donor sperm. This was wonderful!
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Title: Single Mothers by Choice : A Guidebook for Single Women Who Are Considering or Have Chosen Motherhood by Jane Mattes ISBN: 0812922468 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Experiences of Donor Conception: Parents, Offspring and Donors Through the Years by Caroline Lorbach ISBN: 184310122X Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social, Emotional & Ethical Considerations by Susan Cooper, Ellen Sarasohn Glazer ISBN: 0944934226 Publisher: Perspectives Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America by Melissa Ludtke ISBN: 0520218302 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor by Harlyn Aizley ISBN: 1555837557 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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