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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I certainly hope elementary school level teachers are encouraging students who were born via sperm / egg / embryo donor to include them in  their family tree lesson. After all, kids who are adopted (Like mine) are being told to do so.   According to this board donor parents are letting  their kids know their origins, though I suspect not nearly at the rate adopted kids are told their origins.  I am still inclined to think donor kids are not being told as early as adopted kids are.    Step it up, donor parents! Include those donors in your family tree! [/quote]

Why would elementary school teachers have ANY say in who a child includes in their family tree. That seems totally inappropriate regardless of whether the child is adopted, donor conceived, from a blended family, divorced family, domestic violence survivor, etc.

I've been encourage to start telling before she is verbal (in part to make me more comfortable telling...) But that has nothing to do with who is considered "family."   We are also all about some family's have one mom, one dad, two moms, two dads, mom and dad, grandparents etc.  My child is part of a one mom family and does not have a dad- and that is her family (she also has "aunties" (a few of my friends) and adopted savta, an adopted grandpa, in addition to her birth grandparents, and other relatives)  Who she decides to  include in her family tree will be up to her.

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