Gay men choosing parenthood through assisted reproduction: Medical and psychosocial considerations

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 225-229

  Greenfeld, Dorothy A ^a   Seli, Emre ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatherhood; gay men; gestational surrogacy; homosexuality; in vitro fertilization; oocyte donation; psychological assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUNSELING; EMOTION; FATHER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OOCYTE; PARENTHOOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COUNSELING; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MARRIAGE; OOCYTE DONATION; PARENTS; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SURROGATE MOTHERS;

EID: 78650416031     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.05.053     Document Type: Article

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