For many, the road to parenthood is a bumpy one, but for single men hoping to find a surrogate in Australia, it can be particularly hard. Despite the often difficult process, these men are determined to be fathers…

The Spanish woman, now 69, has been told by a court that she is not allowed to care for the children, who were born via IVF…

The High Court has found a man who donated his sperm to a lesbian friend to have a child is the father, due to his involvement in the child’s life…

A woman has asked the Family Court to order the destruction of 12 embryos — even though she has no genetic link to them…

Women will no longer need the approval of their former partner to access IVF in Victoria using their own eggs and donor sperm…

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…

Retroactively removing anonymity from donors is a terrible idea with significant repercussions. People haven’t been able to donate anonymously in Victoria since 1988 and before that not every donor’s identity was recorded, so many people desperate for their genetic history will be disappointed…

Critical ethical points have been raised by Britain becoming the first country in the world to allow mitochondrial transfer, or – to give it its proper name – “babies with three parents”. The technique was pioneered to combat a range of mitochondrial disorders with a pretty high incidence – they afflict one in 6,500…

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…

The parents of a severely disabled NSW boy have lost their $10 million damages case against an IVF specialist who failed to properly warn them of the likelihood their son would inherit a rare blood clotting condition…