Are Two a Family? Older Single Mothers Assisted by Sperm Donation and Their Children Revisited

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 523-528

  Weissenberg, Ruth ^a   Landau, Ruth ^b  

^a MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Assisted conception; Constructivist phenomenological approach; Israeli mothers; Older single mothers; Single mother families; Sperm donation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONCEPTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EMOTION; FAMILY LIFE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; MALE; SPERM DONOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; OOCYTE DONATION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY;

EID: 84867311071     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: 19390025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2012.01187.x     Document Type: Article

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