Archives: Our Ideas In the News

• Can This Three-Month Romance Be Saved?
  Caroline Dworin, Newsweek, 9/2/10
• The Generation That Can't Move On Up
  Andrew J. Cherlin and W. Bradford Wilcox, The Wall Street Journal, 9/2/10
• More couples in TN live together, have kids before marriage
  Bob Smietana, The Tennessean, 9/1/10
• Amid Downturn, Divorce and Infidelity Decrease
  Mary Pilon, Wall Street Journal blog, 8/31/10
• What Women Want, For Real
  Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online, 8/30/10
• When Home Prices, IRAs and Marriages Go South: Divorcing During a Downturn
  Mary Pilon, Wall Street Journal blog, 8/30/10
• Donor offspring, like other fatherless children, face a lifetime of challenges
  Randy Hicks, The Daily Tribune, 8/16/10
• How Deep is Your Love?
  J. R. Bruns, Psychology Today blog, 8/24/10
• Daughter on quest to find sperm donor
  Kyle Martin, Augusta Chronicle, 8/20/10
• Aniston's wrong: Stats prove Dads matter, a lot
  Susan Martinuk, Calgary Herald, 8/20/10
• Confessions of a Sperm Donor: Hundreds of Kids — Films 'The Switch' and 'The Kids Are Alright' Paint Pretty Picture of an Ugly Fertility Industry
  Susan Donaldsen James, ABC News, 8/19/10
• Just what are "choice mothers" settling for?
  Kay Hymowitz, Washington Examiner, 8/18/10
• His Sperm, My Choice
  Alicia Montgomery, National Public Radio blog, 8/17/10
• 'Cryokids': Sperm donor children lobby to end anonymous donations
  Rosemary Black, New York Daily News, 8/17/10
• My Daddy's Name is Donor
  Host Michel Martin interviews Alana Stewart, Wendy Kramer, and Elizabeth Marquardt on National Public Radio’s “Tell Me More,” 8/16/10 (audio and transcript)
• Sperm-donor Offspring Seek Rights and Respect
  Faryl Ury, Associated Press news video, 8/16/10 (video)
• No Mr. Right? More women start families via artificial insemination
  Jessica Yadegaran, Contra Costa Times, 8/16/10
• Children of sperm donors finding each other on the web
  Julia James, Scope (blog of the Stanford School of Medicine), 8/15/10
• Why are women walking away from marriage?
  Christine Wicker, Dallas Morning News, 8/15/10
• David Blankenhorn didn't mess up in Prop 8 Trial
  Jennifer Roback Morse, Ruth Institute blog, 8/11/10
• Does your marriage have a prayer?
  Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA Today, 8/11/10
• Jennifer Aniston in the No Spin Zone – romantic comedies go sperm for the summer
  Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online, 8/16/10
• Couples Who Pray Together, Happier Together
  Essence.com, 8/13/2010
• Sperm-donors' kids seek more rights and respect
  David Crary, Associated Press, 8/15/10
• Sex, Marriage and Upper Class Obligation
  Ross Douthat, New York Times blog, 8/10/10
• Study: African American Couples More Likely to Share Core Religious Beliefs
  Donna St. George, The Washington Post, 8/11/10
• With the web, curiosity and luck, sperm donor siblings connect
  Stephanie Chen, CNN.com, 8/11/10
• Mine, yours and ours: Marriage and your money
  Michael Berg, FoxBusiness.com, 8/11/10
• Vial of Tears
  Noelle Daly, The American Interest, September/October 2010
• Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women?
  Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton and Paula England, Contexts (published by the American Sociological Association), summer 2010
• Now What for Marriage?
  Dana Mack, Wall Street Journal, 8/6/10
• Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Debating the Research on Donor Offspring
  Elizabeth Marquardt, BioNews, 8/4/10 (U.K.)
• Shared suppers a recipe for healthy families
  Vicki Ortiz Healy, Chicago Tribune, 8/4/10
• Pro-Prop 8 Witness Laments Reaction
  Duncan Osborne, Gay City News, 8/4/10
• Child of divorce left up in the air
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 8/2/10
• Sperm bank ban in Turkey sparks debate
  Sera De Vor, Hürriyet Daily News, 7/30/10 (Turkey)
• Sperm bank peddles celebrity look-alike donors
  by Hillary May, Washington Times, 7/29/10
• The Kids Are Not All Right
  Elizabeth Marquardt, First Things, 7/28/10
• Finding your sperm donor not as easy as in movies
  Emily Fuggetta, Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/27/10
• Family Plot (review of 'The Kids are All Right')
  Ross Douthat, National Review (subscription required), 8/2/10
• Like many, Levi and future Palin in-laws have some smoothing out to do
  Stephanie Chen, CNN, 7/22/10
• Donor-Conceived Individuals’ Right to Know
  Vardit Ravitsky and Joanna E. Scheib, Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center, 7/20/10 (online publication)
• Save us from scientism
  David Warren, Ottawa Citizen, 7/18/10
• For the Love of Money
  CNN blog, 7/16/10
• Sperm donors' kids miss half their identity
  Susan Martinuk, Calgary Herald, 7/16/10
• The Debate Over Sperm Donors
  Brad Wilcox debates Debora Spar on National Public Radio’s ‘On Point,’ 7/14/10
• Donating sperm leads to distraught offspring
  Monica Kortsha, The Horn (University of Texas at Austin Student Newspaper), 7/1/10
• Born Identity: Elizabeth Marquardt on Anonymous Sperm Donation in the United States
  Kara Rogers, Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog, 7/1/10
• Sperm Donor Kids Grow Up
  Host Virginia Prescott interviews Elizabeth Marquardt and Alana S., “Word of Mouth” on New Hampshire Public Radio, 6/30/10
• Interfaith marriages are rising fast, but they're failing fast too
  Naomi Schaefer Riley, Washington Post, 6/6/10
• Sperm banks at center of discussion about emotional effects on children
  Angela Townsend, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/29/10
• The Divided World of the Child
  Gordon E. Finley and Seth J. Schwartz, Family Court Review, 7/10
• Caroline was fathered by a sperm donor – so why does she bitterly resent the stranger who gave her life?
  By Frances Hardy and Diana Appleyard, Daily News (U.K.), 6/24/10
• The Kids Are Just Fine, Thanks (Letters)
  Jenifer Lingeman, Letter to The Nation, 6/21/10
• Sperm donation: The US regulatory vacuum and its ethical ramifications
  Vardit Ravitsky, BioNews (U.K.), 6/21/10
• A Father's Day reminder: They're still essential
  Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 6/20/10
• Let's hear it for stepfathers, too
  Leah Ward Sears, CNN.com, 6/18/10
• Men were dealt a blow in recession
  W. Bradford Wilcox and David Lapp, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 6/18/10
• Where is sperm donor 2035?
  David Lapp, Atlanta Journal Constitution, 6/18/10
• Daddy Was Only a Donor
  W. Bradford Wilcox, The Wall Street Journal, 6/18/10
• Is New York Ready for No-Fault Divorce?
  Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Room for Debate blog, New York Times, 6/15/10
• Happy Seed Provider’s Day, Dad
  Barbara Kay, National Post, 6/15/10 (Canada)
• A thought-provoking study examines the lives of people fathered by sperm donors
  Karen Kaplan, Booster Shots blog, Los Angeles Times, 6/14/10
• Do Kids Still Matter to Marriage?
  Tara Parker-Pope, Well blog, New York Times, 6/14/10
• The Sperm-Donor Kids Are Not Really All Right
  Karen Clark and Elizabeth Marquardt, Slate, 6/14/10
• Donor conception a minefield of unregulated practice
  Breda O’Brien, The Irish Times, 6/12/10
• First US study of attitudes towards donor conception published
  Antony Blackburn-Starza, BioNews (U.K.), 6/10/10
• Les personnes nées d’un don de sperme veulent connaître leur géniteur
  Brigitte Perucca, Le Monde, 6/8/10 (French language)
• A Family, No Matter How It's Created
  New York Times Letters to the Editor in Response to Ross Douthat Column, 6/4/2010
• Ethical Decision
  Fox religion reporter Lauren Green interviews Elizabeth Marquardt, 6/4/10 (televised online only)
• Orphaned at Conception
  Michael Cook, MercatorNet (Australia), 6/1/10
• When Daddy's Name is Donor
  Maggie Gallagher, RealClearPolitics, 6/3/10
• Sperm-donor offspring support idea, but have concerns about father, half-siblings
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 6/1/10
• Who's your daddy? Testing the test tube
  Mindy Jacobs, Calgary Sun, 6/1/10
• Who Did I Come From? The Children of Donor Dads Grow Up
  Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet (Australia), 5/31/10
• The Birds and the Bees (via the Fertility Clinic)
  Ross Douthat, New York Times, 5/30/10
• 3 innovative proposals
  The Washington Post, 5/14/10
• Marriage crisis is bipartisan imperative
  Sam Brownback and Linda Malone-Colón, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4/14/10
• "¡Menos mal que el comercio desemen se ha globalizado!"
  Lluis Amiguet, La Vanguardia, 4/9/10 (Spanish language)
• How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
  Don Peck, The Atlantic, 3/10
• Did I Get Married Too Young?
  David Lapp, Wall Street Journal, 2/11/10
• Love, yes, but be committed to marriage
  Leah Ward Sears, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2/10/10
• Separate and Unequal Mating Markets
  Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Room for Debate blog, New York Times, 1/14/10