Practitioner review: Outcomes for parents and children following non-traditional conception: What do clinicians need to know?

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 303-315

  Golombok, Susan E ^a   MacCallum, Fiona ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Cognitive development; Parent child relationships; Socioemotional development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMOTIONALITY; FAMILY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOSTER CARE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037714426     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-7610.00123     Document Type: Review

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