Donor Insemination: Telling Children About Their Origins

Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 157-163

  Hunter, Myra ^a   Salter Ling, Natasha ^b   Glover, Lesley ^b  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disclosure; Donor; fertility; insemination; secrecy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006202684     PISSN: 13606417     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1360641700002355     Document Type: Article

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