Being Donor-Conceived & Normalizing Nontraditional Families | Fran Tusso | TEDxYouth@UrsulineAcademy
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2019
- In her talk, Fran Tusso discusses what it’s like to grow up donor-conceived. She provides insights on having forty-five half-siblings across the country. She wishes to share with the TEDx audience what it’s like to have such an interesting family dynamic and how they can help make others feel comfortable, regardless of theirs.
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Fran lives in Wilmington, Delaware, and is a freshman at Ursuline Academy. She participates in Mental Health Advocacy and Spectrum at school; Queer Teens of Delaware outside of school; and regularly volunteers at Woodlawn Library and Faithful Friends Animal Shelter in her free time. At the age of ten, she learned that she was conceived with a sperm donor. Constantly interested by her “unknown” family, she began talking to some of her forty-five half-brothers and half-sisters as well as her biological father at the age of twelve. Fran has made close connections with many of her cryo-siblings since. She’s eager to share with TEDx fans and her Ursuline family her journey of learning about her conception and siblings and how it affected her personal life. She wants nontraditional families like hers to be normalized in today’s society. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Love this! Education is the key to acceptance for most things and talking about different family structures is so important for young people to know about (and older people too it seems!). Thank you for sharing your story.
this is so cool! i’m so happy that they got to meet some of their siblings!
There needs to be regulation on number of live births by one donor.
This is pretty fantastic. Education is key for sure. 💕
aaa she did such a good job :,)
This warms my heart 💕
Bruh this hits too close to home i just found out i have 12 half siblings in the matter of minutes then ofc told everyone that would listen at school the next day lmao
Did any of these moms think of how the child would feel?
It is not that. It is that males nowdays don't want kids, or marriage. Most of solo Mums want traditional life, but they were deceived, or not even told by a male that he wanted to get married and start a family. The more decent ones start with telling women that. So the only way to have an as traditional family as possible is that women create a family on their own.
This is such a beautiful way to look at it
I'm thinking about having a baby through a donor. I'm very scared that i will harm my child with trauma, but I'm running out of time, I'm almost 40. Please if you're a donor child please let me know your experience. ❤ thank you.
Not a donor child but I will say that literally anything could be traumatizing. Your child might have different experiences and issues, but raising them through that and helping them navigate life is part of parenting.
Ah this is really good...
Education is key. Something a few of the dinosaurs on here could do with opening their minds a little. (Also they could do with not speculating the circumstances). If a lady is widowed and raises her children single handed she is a warrior and society accepts it. No one insists she goes out and gets a replacement human to help her raise the kids. Why would someone if they chose to do have kids on their own not be considered a warrior also!?
Nadie tiene nada en contra de estos hermanos, ellos no son culpables de su circunstancia. Pero, esto es una locura, antinatural. Pueden tener hijos, entre ellos, con primos, sobrinos, tíos. Horrible
fran i love u
❤️
I personally don’t believe any donor should be able to create 45 humans. That’s horrifying...
Yea they usually limit how many if its a reputable place
Poor kids
it is misleading, family are the bonds created by love and affection, by everyday life, when a parent sees you grow up, takes you to the doc, to school, gets sad and happy with you... that is family. Not the produce of an insemination through an anonymous donor. That is genetics, not family.
😆😆😆 so in your little mind these kids are brought up where? In the zoo or a lab? Since your issue is HOW they were conceived? Lol the ignorance!! My goodness.
Exactly. Family is created with love so genetics don't matter lol. So many biological fathers that are shxxt.
it can be family! my family is defined by both those who are blood related to me (and those who i met through blood relation, including those through my anonymous donor) and those who have loved me and raised me. it's who we chose to love as family!
Wrong
@@taliabraver likewise .... a cell does not define family. A donor is someone who isn't willing to become a father or a mother. If so, they would actively find ways to do so.
They are just donors. Mother and father are something really different.
How sad people who think a cell is something to them
No one ever talks about the emotional toll on the partner of the donor.
In my opinion I believe we shouldn't judge ppl come from untraditional families AND, at the same time, we shouldn't encourage or "normalize" it.
Nothing is normal
Educate people to not make these selfish decisions.
Educate people so they realize that brothers and sisters can end up in bed this way without knowing they are related.
It happened before in South America
And with the ratio of cheating, it can happen even more often, iblings living in the neighbourhood without knowing it. So educate males about the importance of loyalty - instead of how they 'deserve' polygamy.
@@berenikealex474 only mothers know that they actually are mothers. A gang if fathers just think they are fathers. Women need to be educated about cheating too.
@@salserokorsou You're right. They shouldn't believe the 'I love you' until the guy puts a ring on it.
@@berenikealex474 believing the "I love you" makes women cheat on their husbands, get pregnant and make those husbands believe they are the fathers when they are not?