title: [Do couples who procreate through sperm donation inform their children?].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  An amendment to the French bioethics law allowing children conceived by gamete donation to know the identity of donors is proposed, while no study can assess the proportion of parents in France that disclose the nature of conception to their donor conceived offspring. The aim of our study was to know whether couples who wish to inform their offspring actually did it.
  
  
  METHODS
  We sent a questionnaire to parents who had expressed an intention to disclose the nature of conception to their future offspring conceived by sperm donation. This allowed us to evaluate the number of couples who inform their offspring, and the couple and offspring feelings when information was given.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 38 questionnaires sent, 20 couples answered. Fourteen informed their offspring about the nature of conception, most having lived serenely this moment. 47% of offspring have reacted with indifference. While 19 couples informed their friends or family, six couples did not inform their offspring, and two of them no longer want to disclose anymore.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Careful thought before the beginning of assisted reproductive technology and support after birth are needed to help couples communicate information to their offspring. Without this communication, any policy of openness to know donor related data seems vain.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de biologie de reproduction-CECOS, hôpital de Conception, AP-HM, 147, boulevard Baille, 13385 Marseille, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Araya
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rouzier
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Perrin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Saias-Magnan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Noizet
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Grillo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Metzler-Guillemain
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D012931:Social Environment; D013094:Spermatozoa; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics; D014342:Truth Disclosure / Q000941:ethics