Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 202-208

  Slutsky, Jenna ^a   Jadva, Vasanti ^b   Freeman, Tabitha ^b   Persaud, Sherina ^a   Steele, Miriam ^a   Steele, Howard ^a   Kramer, Wendy ^c   Golombok, Susan ^b  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Donor Sibling Registry   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; attachment; donor conception; identity; sperm donation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE SCALE; CHILD; CONCEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURIOSITY SCALE; DONOR CONCEPTION IDENTITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; FRIEND; HOMOSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY; SPERM DONOR; THINKING; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DONOR; EMOTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HETEROLOGOUS ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; INTERVIEW; LESBIANISM; MOTHER; PSYCHOLOGY; REGISTER; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL MINORITY; SPERM; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; REGISTRIES; SELF CONCEPT; SEMEN; SEXUAL MINORITIES; SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962054207     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.02.033     Document Type: Article

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