title: Considering the need for a father: the role of clinicians in safeguarding family values in UK fertility treatment.
abstract: One of the most hotly debated issues in the UK's new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 has been the abolition of the requirement for clinicians to consider a prospective child's 'need for a father' before offering treatment. Leading fertility law specialist and solicitor Natalie Gamble reviews the history of the 'need for a father' provision and assesses the practical impact of the new legal requirement of clinicians to consider the child's need for 'supportive parenting'.
authors.affiliation: Fertility expert, Lester Aldridge, UK.
authors.forename: Natalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gamble
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003376:Counseling; D005190:Family; D005220:Fathers; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016487:Parenting; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom