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Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families
OBJECTIVE: To study the processes by which donor-conceived children incorporate donor conception into their subjective sense of identity. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: Family homes. PATIENT(S): Nineteen donor-conceived adolescents. INTERVENTION(S): Administration of an interview and questionnair...
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Elsevier for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4922596/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27012652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.02.033 |
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author | Slutsky, Jenna Jadva, Vasanti Freeman, Tabitha Persaud, Sherina Steele, Miriam Steele, Howard Kramer, Wendy Golombok, Susan |
author_facet | Slutsky, Jenna Jadva, Vasanti Freeman, Tabitha Persaud, Sherina Steele, Miriam Steele, Howard Kramer, Wendy Golombok, Susan |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To study the processes by which donor-conceived children incorporate donor conception into their subjective sense of identity. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: Family homes. PATIENT(S): Nineteen donor-conceived adolescents. INTERVENTION(S): Administration of an interview and questionnaire. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): The mother-child relationship was assessed through the Friends and Family Interview, a semistructured interview designed to assess adolescents' security of attachment in terms of secure-autonomous, insecure-dismissive, insecure-preoccupied, and insecure-disorganized attachment patterns. The Donor Conception Identity Questionnaire assessed adolescents' thoughts and feelings about donor conception, yielding two factors: [1] curiosity about donor conception and [2] avoidance of donor conception. RESULT(S): Statistically significant associations were found between the Curiosity scale and the secure-autonomous and insecure-dismissing attachment ratings. Adolescents with secure-autonomous attachment patterns were more interested in exploring donor conception whereas those with insecure-dismissing patterns were less likely to express curiosity. Insecure-disorganized attachment ratings were statistically significantly correlated with the Avoidance scale, indicating higher levels of negative feelings about donor conception. CONCLUSION(S): The results of this study of the influence of parent-child relationships on thoughts and feelings about donor conception in adolescence suggest that the valence of the parent-child relationship influences adolescents' appraisal of their donor conception within the context of their growing sense of identity. |
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spelling | pubmed-49225962016-07-12 Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families Slutsky, Jenna Jadva, Vasanti Freeman, Tabitha Persaud, Sherina Steele, Miriam Steele, Howard Kramer, Wendy Golombok, Susan Fertil Steril Original Article OBJECTIVE: To study the processes by which donor-conceived children incorporate donor conception into their subjective sense of identity. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: Family homes. PATIENT(S): Nineteen donor-conceived adolescents. INTERVENTION(S): Administration of an interview and questionnaire. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): The mother-child relationship was assessed through the Friends and Family Interview, a semistructured interview designed to assess adolescents' security of attachment in terms of secure-autonomous, insecure-dismissive, insecure-preoccupied, and insecure-disorganized attachment patterns. The Donor Conception Identity Questionnaire assessed adolescents' thoughts and feelings about donor conception, yielding two factors: [1] curiosity about donor conception and [2] avoidance of donor conception. RESULT(S): Statistically significant associations were found between the Curiosity scale and the secure-autonomous and insecure-dismissing attachment ratings. Adolescents with secure-autonomous attachment patterns were more interested in exploring donor conception whereas those with insecure-dismissing patterns were less likely to express curiosity. Insecure-disorganized attachment ratings were statistically significantly correlated with the Avoidance scale, indicating higher levels of negative feelings about donor conception. CONCLUSION(S): The results of this study of the influence of parent-child relationships on thoughts and feelings about donor conception in adolescence suggest that the valence of the parent-child relationship influences adolescents' appraisal of their donor conception within the context of their growing sense of identity. Elsevier for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine 2016-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4922596/ /pubmed/27012652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.02.033 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Original Article Slutsky, Jenna Jadva, Vasanti Freeman, Tabitha Persaud, Sherina Steele, Miriam Steele, Howard Kramer, Wendy Golombok, Susan Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families |
title | Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families |
title_full | Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families |
title_fullStr | Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families |
title_full_unstemmed | Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families |
title_short | Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families |
title_sort | integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4922596/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27012652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.02.033 |
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