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How these guides are written

The guides on this website are researched and written by the achildofyourown.com team. Each guide gives the law and the facts as they are, names its sources, and says when it was checked.

Checked November 2026For every guide

Who is behind this website

This website is run by a man who offers to help a woman have a child. On this website he uses the name Max. The guides lead to his offer, and each guide says so.

The guides give the law as it is, whether or not that suits his offer. Where a country forbids something, the guide says so plainly.

Where the facts come from

We use the best source we can find, in this order:

1. The law itself, from the official gazette or the government’s legal database.
2. The government, the health ministry or the regulator.
3. A national medical society.
4. Reputable newspapers, academic papers and clinic pages.

Where we can, each rule names its law and article. Each guide ends with its list of sources. When a fact comes only from a newspaper or from a summary, we say that it is “reported”.

What we do not do

• We do not guess. When we could not confirm something, the guide says “we could not confirm”. When we found no reliable source for a country’s main question, we leave it out. Where we found the law but not what clinics actually do, we say so.
• No clinic, sperm bank or lawyer pays for a guide, and the guides carry no adverts.
• The guides are not legal or medical advice. Laws change, and a clinic can have its own rules.

How each guide is dated

Each guide shows the month it was checked, at the top and in its sources. When we learn that a law has changed, we check the guide again and change its date.

When we find a mistake, we correct it. In November 2026, for example, we corrected what the guide on treatment abroad said about known donors in Ukraine and about the legal father in Denmark.

If you find a mistake

Please tell us, with the source if you have one. We read every message.

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