ArticleDevelopmental psychology2017
A longitudinal study of families formed through reproductive donation: Parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent adjustment at age 14.
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- Moral parenthood: not gestational.Journal of medical ethics · 2025Article
- Mapping Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of gamete donation.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024Review
- International gestational surrogacy in the United States, 2014-2020.Fertility and sterility · 2024Article
- A longitudinal study of families created using egg donation: Family functioning at age 5.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Article
- Relationships between mothers and children in families formed by shared biological motherhood.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- 'I know it's not normal but it's normal to me, and that's all that matters': experiences of young adults conceived through egg donation, sperm donation, and surrogacy.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Adolescent Development and the Parent-Adolescent Relationship in Diverse Family Forms Created by Assisted Reproduction.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Fatherlessness, sperm donors and 'so what?' parentage: arguing against the immorality of donor conception through 'world literature'.Medical humanities · 2022Article
- Parent-child relationship quality and child psychological adjustment in families created using egg donation: children's perspectives at age 5 years.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Good practice recommendations for information provision for those involved in reproductive donationHuman reproduction open · 2022Article
- Love and Truth: What Really Matters for Children Born Through Third-Party Assisted Reproduction.Child development perspectives · 2021Article
- The path toward ectogenesis: looking beyond the technical challenges.BMC medical ethics · 2021Article
- Single mothers by choice: Parenting and child adjustment in middle childhood.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2021Article
- Medically assisted reproduction and parent-child relationships during adolescence: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- "Making the child mine": Mothers' thoughts and feelings about the mother-infant relationship in egg donation families.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2020Article
- 'Genes versus children': if the goal is parenthood, are we using the optimal approach?Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- Families Created by Egg Donation: Parent-Child Relationship Quality in Infancy.Child development · 2019Article
- The psychosocial health of children born after medically assisted reproduction: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study.SSM - population health · 2019Article
- Parenting and the Adjustment of Children Born to Gay Fathers Through Surrogacy.Child development · 2018Observational
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The aim of the 6th phase of this longitudinal study was to establish whether children born through assisted reproduction involving reproductive donation were at risk for psychological problems following the transition to adolescence at age 14 and, if so, to examine the nature of these problems and the mechanisms involved. Eighty-seven families formed through reproductive donation, including 32 donor insemination families, 27 egg donation families, and 28 surrogacy families, were compared with 54 natural conception families. Standardized interviews, questionnaires, and observational assessments of the quality of parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent adjustment were administered to mothers, adolescents, and teachers. The mothers in surrogacy families showed less negative parenting and reported greater acceptance of their adolescent children and fewer problems in family relationships as a whole compared with gamete donation mothers. In addition, less positive relationships were found between mothers and adolescents in egg donation families than in donor insemination families as rated by both mothers and adolescents. There were no differences between family types for the adolescents themselves in terms of adjustment problems, psychological well-being, and self-esteem. Longitudinal analyses showed no differences between family types in negative parenting from age 7 to age 14, and a weaker association between negative parenting and adjustment difficulties for gamete donation than natural conception and surrogacy families. The findings suggest that the absence of a genetic link between mothers and their children is associated with less positive mother-adolescent relationships whereas the absence of a gestational link does not have an adverse effect. (PsycINFO Database Record
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