DCP Insights

What it feels like when you find out you’re donor conceived – Toby 2024

A therapist’s reflections on grief, identity and donor conception – Lauren 2025

The Instinctive Pain of Kinship Loss

Kinship Loss – Almost Someone’s Sister

How many Donor Conceived People are there in the UK?

“The Donor was a medical student”

What you could say to someone who asks you whether they should have a Donor Conceived child

Why the “So wanted” phrase can be very triggering for DCP

An open letter to Ancestry and 23& Me – Suggestions of what you can do better to support DCP – Draft

A stranger in your own family – Draft

Being the secret and keeping the secret – Draft

Navigating New Genetic Relatives!! – Draft

The experience of late discovery and the impact this has on sense of self, identity and belonging – Draft

DCP: The lived experience of having so many questions without answers or ‘unfinished loops’ – Draft

The emotional and ethical labour for DCP when we end up as a‘gatekeeper’ to donor and half-sibling information – Draft

The psychological distress of large sibling groups/pods – Draft

The synchronicities and weird coincidences when you’re a DCP – Draft

Why DCP find the term “Dibling” to be challenging – Draft

Why Implications Counselling MUST be mandatory for Intending Parents – Draft

Being a DCP and feeling exploited – Draft

Why are Donor Conceived People so often infantilised? – Draft

Why are there more DCP women than men? – Draft