YOUR article headlined "Right to know your real mum and dad" (June 7), was sensitively written and dealt well with the issues arising from donor assisted conception.
It was therefore all the more insensitive that the headline implied that "real" parents are only those who are biological parents.
Indeed, one of my main comments was that the most important parents to anyone conceived using donor sperm or eggs, as for any of us, are the ones who bring us up - the fact the some people may want to know more about their donor does not mean that they think of them as their "real" parent.
Marilyn Crawshaw,
Department of Social Policy & Social Work,
Heslington, York.
Updated: 10:38 Monday, June 17, 2002
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