By Madeline Licker Feingold, Ph.D., AFA Mental Health Advisory Council Mental health professionals often are in the position of helping people build families with the help of egg or sperm donors. At times we see people who have been trying to get pregnant on their own, sometimes for years, and ...

by Andrew Vorzimer, Esq. and David Randall, Esq. Late last year, in reaction to recent incendiary industry scandals and calls to modernize California statutes relating to third party reproduction, Governor Jerry Brown signed California Assembly Bill 1217, which became operative January 1, 2013, ...

  Join The American Fertility Association and Brooklyn Community Pride Center for a free Family Planning Panel and Discussion     On Thursday evening, January 31st, The American Fertility Association and Brooklyn ...

The lawsuit by the state of Kansas against hapless sperm donor William Marotta of Topeka continues to make headlines. In case you unplugged during the holidays, here’s the back story: In 2009 Mr. Marotta responded to a Craig’s List ad soliciting a sperm donor to enable a lesbian ...

by Ken Mosesian Really? That's amazing!  That's the number one response we received from physicians when we discussed our outreach program to men living with HIV. The message is simple and extraordinary: with proper care, men living with HIV can have biologically related c...

by Carolyn Berger, LCSW On August 23rd Rufus Wainwright will be marrying his partner of five years, Jorn Weisbrodt, out in Montauk, Long Island. I’ve always liked Rufus Wainwright’s music, but only became interested in his family building story after I saw him in concert in ...

by Corey Whelan When couples decide that yes, it's time to have a baby, many excitedly set the stage for that first, heady, baby-making sexual encounter with a candle-lit dinner, soft, romantic music, and fingers crossed. For hopeful moms who are lesbians however, that scene might look a little ...

by Ken Mosesian, Executive Director, The American Fertility Association Over 200 people attended The American Fertility Association’s fund raiser, IlluminationsLA 2012, celebrating those who have made a difference in the areas of fertility and family building. This year, we recognized Dr. ...

by Carolyn Berger, L.C.S.W. Stories about couples readying themselves for their adoption home study are legion. Couples have been known to repaint their apartments, scrub between the bathroom tiles with an old toothbrush, and make sure there are cookies baking in the oven when the social ...