ReviewUpsala journal of medical sciences2020
Psychosocial aspects of identity-release gamete donation - perspectives of donors, recipients, and offspring.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reproductive Donors' Needs and Preferences: A Mixed-methods Systematic Review.International journal of community based nursing and midwifery · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of assisted and third-party reproduction guidelines regarding management and care of donors.Reproductive health · 2024Pooled it
- Developing and validating an evidence-based health promotion program for reproductive donors reflecting their challenges in the process of donation decision-making: a multi-method study protocol.Reproductive health · 2025Article
- Are open-identity donors prepared for release of their identity? Long-term follow-up of a national sample of oocyte and sperm donors.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Oocyte Donation.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Article
- Mapping Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of gamete donation.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024Review
- Establishment of a Unified Register of Donor Sexual Gametes in the Republic of Kazakhstan.Acta medica academica · 2024Review
- Israeli students' perceptions regarding sperm donation: dilemmas reflections with dominant demographic effect.Reproductive health · 2024Article
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- Donation of the body and its parts in the construction of parenthood.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2023Article
- Psycho-social experience of oocyte recipient women: a qualitative study.BMC women's health · 2021Article
- Fertility Counseling in Survivors of Cancer in Childhood and Adolescence: Time for a Reappraisal?Cancers · 2021Article
- Positioning the donor in a new landscape-mothers' and fathers' experiences as their adult children obtained information about the identity-release sperm donor.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Life Finds a Way: Young Adults With Lesbian Mothers Reflect on Their Childhood Prior to Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Parents in Sweden.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- The Child's Right to Know Versus the Parents' Right Not to Tell: The Attitudes of Couples Undergoing Fertility Treatments Towards Identity-Release Gamete Donation.Journal of reproduction & infertilityArticle
- Update and new advances in fertility preservation and cancer.CA: a cancer journal for cliniciansReview
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Abstract
Donor conception creates families with varying genetic linkage between family members. This may have short-term as well as lifelong psychosocial consequences for all involved. Gamete donors have traditionally been anonymous to recipients and offspring, but there is a growing trend towards identity-release donor programmes that give offspring the right to obtain the donor's identity. This review aims to provide an overview of the perspectives of donors and recipients and offspring involved in identity-release donation. The results show that both oocyte and sperm donors have primarily altruistic motives, and recipients, in particular lesbian and single women, are generally open about the donation to their offspring. The few existing studies on offspring perspectives indicate that those who are aware of their donor conception appear to be interested in contact with the donor, and most donors are open to such contact. Investigations of donors and recipients indicate a need for more counselling and support to manage family life with varying genetic linkage within and outside the family unit. This includes preparing for and managing future contact between the donor and his/her family and donor offspring and their family, as well as between donor siblings and their respective families.
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