ArticleChild development2019
Families Created by Egg Donation: Parent-Child Relationship Quality in Infancy.
Article in Child development, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Genealogically bewildered individuals and forensic identification: a review of current and emerging solutions.International journal of legal medicine · 2025Review
- The Impact of Embryo Donation Technology on Child Psychological Adjustment and parenting styles: A Comparative Study.International journal of fertility & sterility · 2025Article
- 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
- Families created via identity-release egg donation: disclosure and an exploration of donor threat in early childhood.Reproductive biomedicine online · 2023Article
- University students' opinion on gamete donor identification regimes.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2023Observational
- Adolescent Development and the Parent-Adolescent Relationship in Diverse Family Forms Created by Assisted Reproduction.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- 'I'm the only mum she knows': parents' understanding of, and feelings about, identity-release egg donation.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- An exploration of parental age in relation to parents' psychological health, child adjustment and experiences of being an older parent in families formed through egg donation.Reproductive biomedicine online · 2022Article
- Perceptions of Fertility Physicians Treating Women Undergoing IVF Using an Egg Donation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 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
- 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
- Exploring Infertile Couples' Decisions to Disclose Donor Conception to The Future Child.International journal of fertility & sterility · 2020Article
- "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
- Psychological well-being of identity-release egg donation parents with infants.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Increasing numbers of children are being born through egg donation and thus do not share a genetic relationship with their mother. Parent-infant relationship quality was examined in 85 egg donation families and a comparison group of 65 in vitro fertilization families (infant M = 11 months). Standardized interview and observational measures were used to assess mother-infant and father-infant relationship quality at the representational and behavioral levels. Few differences were found between family types in parents' representations of the parent-infant relationship. Differences were found between family types in the observational assessment of mother-infant relationship quality, indicating less optimal interactions in egg donation families. Findings suggest that egg donation families function well in infancy overall, but there may be subtle yet meaningful differences in mother-infant interaction quality.
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