Children of the new reproductive technologies: Social and genetic parenthood

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 429-435

  Bos, Henny ^a,b   van Balen, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AID families; Child development; New reproductive technologies; Oocyte donation families; Parenting; Partial surrogacy families; Same sex families

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD REARING; CONCEPTION; EMOTIONALITY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FAMILY PLANNING; FAMILY RELATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEREDITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LESBIAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OOCYTE DONATION; PARENTHOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SPERM DONOR;

CHILD; FAMILY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SURROGATE MOTHERS;

EID: 78649742728     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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