'The Chosen Baby,' a treasure for adoptees
I wanted to reply to the letter about the baby boy conceived via sperm donation. I am an adopted child (long before the age of in vitro fertilization). My parents told me that I was adopted over and over from the time I was an infant (I was 3 days old when adopted).
The book they read to me was "The Chosen Baby," by Valentina P. Wasson. It was originally published in 1939 and "updated" in 1950, which is the edition I have (I was adopted in the late 1950s when options for adoption books were pretty limited).
I always felt special. I believe it is important to tell children about where they came from at an earlier age, and I still love the story of the "chosen baby" because my parents (and others who have gone this route) made a conscious choice to become parents - washingtonpost.com