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As typical as donor-conceived children have become, with at least a million such children in the US alone, their experiences are still unusual in many ways. In Scattered Seeds, journalist and writer Jacqueline Mroz looks at the growth of sperm donation and assisted reproduction and how it affects the children who are born, the women who buy and use the sperm to have kids, and the sperm donors who donate their genetic material to help others procreate. With empathy and in-depth analysis, Scattered Seeds explores the sociology, psychology, and anthropology surrounding those connected with fertility procedures today and looks back at the history that brought us to this point.The personal stories in this book will put a human face on the issues and help to illuminate this country's controversial and troubling unregulated fertility industry-an industry that has been compared to the Wild, Wild West, where anything goes.
About the Author
Jacqueline Mroz is a writer and journalist who was worked on newspapers in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in radio for the BBC World Service in London. Her popular New York Times article about a sperm donor with 150 children became the book, Scattered Seeds: In Search of Family and Identity in the Sperm Donor Generation. Her background in science writing, and her experiences with her friends, led her to write her newest book: Girl Talk: What Science Can Tell Us About Female Friendship. Her love of books inspired her to help found the Montclair Literary Festival, in Montclair, NJ. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three sons.
