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At What Age Do They Understand?
As a parent of donor-conceived children I know what it's like to wonder if telling our children early on, say under the age of 5, about their origins is getting across to them, and if so, on what level?
On the emotional level, we can easily tell because we can just feel it. They are either non-plussed, unresponsive, or cheerfully content because we are talking with them, or reading with them or simply just being with them.