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Conception occurs in many ways: traditional conception, IVF, surrogacy, adoption, sperm or egg donation in the clinical sense and sperm donation in the informal sense.

In the case of Masson and Parsons & Ors (2019), (pseudonyms used), a woman asked her good friend to donate sperm so that she could have a child. They made an informal agreement and subsequently she fell pregnant by way of artificial insemination resulting in the birth of a child in 2007.

In 2015, the mother and her de facto partner wished to relocate to New Zealand. As the sperm donor had been involved in the child’s life for...

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Australia: Parenting Orders and a Pandemic

Sporting activities are being cancelled, schools might close, grandparents may not be able to care for children and self-quarantine is recommended for sick children and their parents and perhaps soon...