Research
Good practice recommendations for information provision for those involved in reproductive donation
What information and support should be offered to donors, intended parents and donor-conceived people, in general and in consideration of the availability of direct-to-consumer genetic testing and matching services?
Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. 2022
This research studies the processes by which donor-conceived children incorporate donor conception into their subjective sense of identity
Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. 2016
Adolescents conceived through donor insemination in mother-headed families: a qualitative study of motivations and experiences of contacting and meeting same-donor offspring thta were raised in different families.
Published by Children and Society on behalf of the University of Cambridge, The New School and the Donor Sibling Registry. 2016
This document discusses the ethical implications of informing offspring about their conception using gamete or embryo donation. It replaces the 2013 ASRM Ethics Committee document of the same name.
Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. 2018
The 2020 We Are Donor Conceived survey was designed to provide greater understanding about the feelings, perspectives, and experiences of people conceived via gamete donation. This survey is not peer reviewed research.
Published by We are Donor Conceived 2020.
The seventh phase of this longitudinal study investigated whether children born through third-party assisted reproduction experienced psychological problems, or difficulties in their relationship with their mothers, in early adulthood. The impact of disclosure of their biological origins, and quality of mother–child relationships from age 3 onward, were also examined.
Research by Susan Golombok , Catherine Jones, Poppy Hall, Sarah Foley, Susan Imrie, Vasanti Jadva
Published by American Psychological Association 2023.
You can read the overview of the 6th phase of this study here, when the children were 14 (2016) .
Storytelling is a fundamental part of human interaction; it is also deeply social and political in nature. This article explores reproductive storytelling as a phenomenon of sociological consequence in the context of donor conception, which used to be managed through secrecy but where children are now perceived ‘to have the right’ to know about their genetic origins.
Research by Petra Nordqvist
Published by Sage Journals in “Sociology” 2021.