title: Families created through surrogacy arrangements: parent-child relationships in the 1st year of life.
abstract: Findings are presented of a study of families created through surrogacy arrangements. Forty-two surrogacy families were compared with 51 egg-donation families and 80 natural-conception families on standardized interview and questionnaire measures of the psychological well-being of the parents, the quality of parent-child relationships, and infant temperament. The differences that were identified between the surrogacy families and the other family types indicated greater psychological well-being and adaptation to parenthood by mothers and fathers of children born through surrogacy arrangements than by the natural-conception parents.
authors.affiliation: Family and Child Psychology Reseaerch Centre, City University, London, United Kingdom. S.E.Golombok@city.ac.uk
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Golombok
authors.forename: Clare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: Vasanti
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jadva
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: MacCallum
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lycett
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D013533:Gestational Carriers; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013694:Temperament