Strategies for disclosure: how parents approach telling their children that they were conceived with donor gametes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 524-533

  Mac Dougall, Kirstin ^a   Becker, Gay ^a   Scheib, Joanna E ^b   Nachtigall, Robert D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

counseling; disclosure; donor conception; donor insemination; Egg donation; infertility; origin narratives; scripts; strategies; support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; FAMILY; GAMETE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; PARENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PEER GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUNSELING; DISCLOSURE; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTE DONATION; PREGNANCY; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 33847754325     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.07.1514     Document Type: Article

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