Tomorrow in “On the Square,” Elizabeth Marquardt of the Institute of American Values reviews the cheerful new movie about children conceived from donor sperm, The Kids Are All Right . The reality, she suggests from her own studies, which produced the ground-breaking study My Daddy’s Name is Donor , is that they aren’t nearly so all right as the movie-makers would have you think.
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