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There are so many ways to make a family

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When Ruthie Ackerman first decided to use a donor egg to conceive, she worried there could be a lingering, lifelong wedge between her and her child, because they wouldn't share genetic material. But today Ruthie knows something she only understood intellectually before: Family isn’t biology or genetics. It’s devotion. It’s showing up. It’s caretaking.

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There are so many ways to make a family

When Ruthie Ackerman first decided to use a donor egg to conceive, she worried there could be a lingering, lifelong wedge between her and her child, because they wouldn't share genetic material. But today Ruthie knows something she only understood intellectually before: Family isn’t biology or genetics. It’s devotion. It’s showing up. It’s caretaking.

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WBUR broke the news in Boston, United States on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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