Disclosure of donor insemination: parental attitudes.
Disclosures by parents with a child conceived by donor insemination were compared to those of parents with adopted children and parents with children conceived by in vitro fertilization. None of the donor-insemination parents had told their child. The factors found to create the greatest difficulties for disclosure were the father's infertility, the timing and method of telling, and the lack of genetic information for the child.
Cook
R
R
Clinical and Health Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, England.
Golombok
S
S
Bish
A
A
Murray
C
C
D000300:Adoption / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D030881:Disclosure; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro / Q000523:psychology; D030661:Genetic Privacy; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000523:psychology; D007316:Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012650:Self Disclosure; D013094:Spermatozoa; D014342:Truth Disclosure