New families, old values: considerations regarding the welfare of the child

Golombok, Susan

doi:10.1093/humrep/13.9.2342

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“…A British lesbian couple have already volunteered to be the first to utilise the service, should it become commercially available (Walles, 2003 The increased use of this technique in Aotearoa/New Zealand must also be understood in the context of the self-imposed policy of some clinics to only offer identifiable donors. v See Brewaeys (2003), Brewaeys, Ponjaert, Van Hall and Golombok (1997), Golombok (1998Golombok ( , 2000, Lycett, Daniels, Curson, and Golombok (2004), Murray (2004), and Tasker and Golombok (1997). vi Anecdotally, it appears some fertility clinics have resolved the opposition of certain employees to treating single women and lesbian couples by limiting the nature of that service to that of supplying screened sperm for the purposes of self insemination.…”

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“…or "given away" (Shenfield & Steele, 1997;Golombok, 1998). Nor is there sufficient research into the potential psychological effects of disclosure and identification of the donor on the child, on existing family relationships (particularly with the non-biological parent) (Scheib, Riordan, & Rubin, 2003;Lycett et al, 2005), or on the consequences for those who seek out a donor parent and encounter an individual who differs from prior expectations and/or reacts in ways that were not fully anticipated.…”

Section: Legislating Openness: the Human Assisted Reproductive Technomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transgressive technologies? Strategies of discursive containment in the representation and regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Michelle

2006

Women's Studies International Forum

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Abstract:Drawing on a case study of the contemporary representation and regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand, this paper traces the cultural anxieties evident in public, political, and media discussion and debate around the provision and use of ART, with a specific focus on the use of donor insemination and IVF by single women and lesbian couples. It documents the operation of various narrative mechanisms, normative assumptions, and discursive strategies that work to identify the legitimate uses and users of such technologies whilst simultaneously affirming conventional understandings of "gender", "motherhood", and "the family", and concludes that contemporary anxieties and ethical dilemmas provoked by women's transgressive uses of ART have been addressed through legislative changes that target these women for official surveillance and control while also effectively limiting their reproductive options.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Legislating Openness: the Human Assisted Reproductive Technomentioning

confidence: 99%

Transgressive technologies? Strategies of discursive containment in the representation and regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Michelle

2006

Women's Studies International Forum

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“…The psychological impact on the child should be minimal and probably within the range of experiences seen in some parallel studies on, for example, single parent families [17,18].…”

Section: Legal and Social Status Of The Childmentioning

confidence: 95%

Ethical challenges in reproductive medicine: posthumous reproduction

Bahadur

2004

International Congress Series

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“…Indeed, research shows that it is beneficial for children to have more than one committed parent: but that does not appear to be because of parental sexual complementarity, but because there are more of them 7. Some possible disadvantages in having two rather than one parent might ensure from the fact that decision-making is made a bit more difficult, or at least slower (because, presumably, the parents have to communicate and reach an agreement together).…”

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On triparenting. Is having three committed parents better than having only two?

Cutas

2011

J Med Ethics

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Although research indicates that single parenting is not by itself worse for children than their being brought up by both their parents, there are reasons why it is better for children to have more than one committed parent. If having two committed parents is better, everything else being equal, than having just one, I argue that it might be even better for children to have three committed parents. There might, in addition, be further reasons why allowing triparenting would benefit children and adults, at least in some cases. Whether or not triparenting is on the whole preferable to bi- or monoparenting, it does have certain advantages (as well as shortcomings) which, at the very least, warrant its inclusion in debates over the sorts of family structures we should allow in our societies, and how many people should be accepted in them. This paper has the modest aim of scratching the surface of this wider topic by challenging the necessity of the max-two-parents framework.

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New families, old values: considerations regarding the welfare of the child

Cited by 61 publications

References 65 publications

Transgressive technologies? Strategies of discursive containment in the representation and regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Transgressive technologies? Strategies of discursive containment in the representation and regulation of assisted reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Ethical challenges in reproductive medicine: posthumous reproduction

On triparenting. Is having three committed parents better than having only two?

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