Challenges facing lesbian couples starting a family using donor sperm
Channel: University of Manchester Sociology department
Date: 2014-06-26

Dr Petra Nordqvist, sociologist at the University of Manchester, discusses some of the challenges facing lesbian couples who decide to start a family. These challenges include deciding whether to go through a fertility clinic or arrange sperm donation through a friend or via the internet, legal considerations of both options, and potential challenges arising from the lack of recognition in society for two-mother families. 

Dr Nordqvist is part of the research team for the ESRC project, Relative Strangers, which is based in the Morgan Centre, University of Manchester. You can find out more about the project at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre