Secrecy, disclosure and everything in-between: Decisions of parents of children conceived by donor insemination, egg donation and surrogacy

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 485-495

  Readings, Jennifer ^a   Blake, Lucy ^a   Casey, Polly ^a   Jadva, Vasanti ^a   Golombok, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Donor conception; Secrecy; Surrogacy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONCEPTION; CONFIDENTIALITY; DECISION MAKING; EGG DONATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTHER; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; AGE; HETEROLOGOUS ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; OOCYTE DONATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS; MALE; OOCYTE DONATION; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS;

EID: 79959326377     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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