Strategies for disclosure: how parents approach telling their children that they were conceived with donor gametes
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Kirstin Mac Dougall, M.F.A., Gay Becker, Ph.D., Joanna E. Scheib, Ph.D., and Robert D. Nachtigall, M.D. a Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, b Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, and c Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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