Relative strangers: Family life, genes and donor conception

Development and Validation of A Decision-Making Donor Conception Questionnaire in Iranian Infertile Couples

Objective The present study was conducted to develop a decision-making questionnaire for selecting donor conception and assess its psychometric properties in Iranian infertile couples. MaterialsAndMethods This scale development study was conducted based on De Vellis’ method (2012) in four steps at Milad Infertility Clinic in Mashhad, Iran. The dimensions of the concept of decision-making were d...

Donor conception and children's rights: "first, do no harm".

A common strategy used to dismiss arguments against donor conception is that there is no proof donor-conceived persons are harmed in any important way. Their claims of harm are dismissed as anecdotal and "not scientific," and studies carried out on young donor-conceived children, who declare themselves perfectly happy with their parents and families are tendered as evidence that no harm is caus...

Donor conception and children's rights: a parent's decision.

Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families

OBJECTIVE To study the processes by which donor-conceived children incorporate donor conception into their subjective sense of identity. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Family homes. PATIENT(S) Nineteen donor-conceived adolescents. INTERVENTION(S) Administration of an interview and questionnaire. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) The mother-child relationship was assessed through the Friends an...

Embryo donation families: mothers' decisions regarding disclosure of donor conception.

BACKGROUND Previous data suggest that parents who adopt a child tend to support full disclosure while donor conception families prefer to keep the method of conception relatively private. It is not known whether parents in embryo donation families will tend towards the adoption model, therefore, we studied families with a child conceived using donated embryos. METHODS A total of 21 embryo don...