Legally speaking who is a parent? It’s not a straight forward question for blended families, LGTBQI families, indigenous families with strong traditional kinship ties and children born via surrogacy or sperm or egg donation. The High Court of Australia is to hear a case commenced by a sperm donor known as Robert…

An Australian girl’s biological mother and her sperm donor father have spent $1.5 million on a court feud over whether the biological father, who has played the role as father to the child since birth, should have any parental rights. ..

A 16-year-old boy suffering from autism has been granted permission to begin sex change treatments, provided he has his sperm frozen in case he wants children…

The Attorney-General, George Brandis, has released the Family Law Council’s report on Parentage and the Family Law Act, which calls for a coordinated international response to the issue of overseas surrogacy arrangements…

A MELBOURNE sperm donor dad has been granted access to his daughter despite the objections of her lesbian parents to his youthful partying ways. The man had been seeking shared custody of his two-year-old biological daughter that would have seen her living with him five nights a fortnight…

Children of anonymous sperm donors should be allowed access to genetic information such as health history, height and eye colour, and an agency set up to quickly collect these records because they are at risk of being lost, an inquiry has found…

A Family Court judge has awarded a man equal shared parental responsibility of a two-year-old boy he fathered as a sperm donor, in a landmark ruling. The decision was handed down despite despite Victorian law stating that sperm donors are not to be considered the father, because the father and child had already formed a bond with the approval of the mother…

A decision on whether to give people conceived from sperm donors clues about their genetic origin on a separate page of their birth certificate has been shelved by the NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell. Donor-conception support groups said people had a …..

PROSPECTIVE parents could receive discounted fertility treatment if they promise to donate some of their embryos to other people, under a proposal to deal with the problem of thousands of unwanted embryos sitting in clinic freezers…

As a young school teacher, Peter Liston made 10 donations of sperm on the condition he would remain anonymous. He was paid $100 to cover his costs. But since then, he has often wondered about what became of his contribution…