Telling Reproductive Stories: Social Scripts, Relationality and Donor Conception

Storytelling is a fundamental part of human interaction; it also deeply social and political in nature. In this article, I explore reproductive storytelling as phenomenon sociological consequence. do so the context donor conception, which used to be managed through secrecy but where children are now perceived ‘to have right’ know about their genetic origins. draw on original qualitative data with families conceived children, bringing my into conversation script theory concept relationality, investigate disjuncture between value placed openness storytelling, absence an existing by so. show nuanced ways plays out relational playing-fields, within multidimensional, intergenerational relationships. suggest that order understand sociologically significance process vital keep both role scripts, embedded firmly view.