Families with children conceived by donor insemination: A follow-up at age twelve

Child Development

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 952-968

  Golombok, Susan ^a   MacCallum, Fiona ^a   Goodman, Emma ^a   Rutter, Michael ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DONOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0036581560     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00449     Document Type: Review

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