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CORRECTION: 'My Daddy's Name is Donor': Read with caution!

20 July 2010

By Dr Kirsty Horsey

On 9 July 2010 we published a commentary written by Eric Blyth, Professor of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield, UK and Visiting Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Wendy Kramer, co-founder of the US Donor Sibling Registry. The commentary was about a recent report co-authored by Elizabeth Marquardt, director of the Institute for American Values (IAV)'s Center for Marriage and Families, Norval D. Glenn, of the University of Texas at Austin, and Karen Clark, of FamilyScholars.org, and published by the Commission on Parenthood's Future, in association with the IAV.

We have since been asked by one of the authors of the 'My Daddy's Name is Donor' report to remove a passage of that commentary describing the Commission on Parenthood's Future as a 'Christian think tank'. We are happy to correct this information and apologise for any inconvenience caused. The wording of the original article has now been changed and is available at http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_65970.asp.

 

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