Satisfaction with known, open-identity, or unknown sperm donors: reports from lesbian mothers of 17-year-old adolescents

Gartrell, Nanette; Bos, Henny; Goldberg, Naomi G; Deck, Amalia; Gelderen, Loes van Rijn-van

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.09.019

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“…Some women collaborate with fathers in shared parental responsibilities, while others choose a known donor who is not to be involved in daily parenting (Dempsey, 2010;Donovan, 2000). An American study shows that, at 18 years after the insemination, most of their lesbian participants were satisfied with their donor choice, but mothers who had chosen anonymous donors were more often dissatisfied with their choice than mothers who had chosen known or identity-release donors (Gartrell, Bos, Goldberg, Deck & van Rijn-van Gelderen, 2015).…”

Section: Studies On Lesbian Family Life and Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pride and Prejudice : Lesbian Families in Contemporary Sweden

Malmquist

2015

Linköping Studies in Behavioural Science

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To my children, Emil, Nils, Myran and Tove Färgen på barns ögon kommer från arvet, glittret i barns ögon kommer från miljön.The colour of children's eyes comes from nature, the sparkle in children's eyes comes from nurture. AbstractOptions and possibilities for lesbian parents have changed fundamentally since the turn of the millennium. A legal change in 2003 enabled a same-sex couple to share legal parenthood of the same child. An additional legal change, in 2005, gave lesbian couples access to fertility treatment within public healthcare in Sweden. The present thesis focuses on families where two women share legal parenthood of their children. It aims to provide knowledge about lesbian parenting couples and their children, and to focus on the interplay between family members within lesbian families, and between family members and their surroundings. Furthermore, the thesis aims to visualize and analyse notions of heteronormativity and homonormativity in contemporary Sweden. The thesis draws on interviews with 118 parents in 61 families, and 12 children in 11 families. The participants' stories, descriptions, reflections and discourses have been analysed using discursive psychology and thematic analysis.The thesis includes five empirical papers. Paper I focuses on encounters with healthcare professionals prior to and during pregnancy, at childbirth and during the early stages of parenthood. Paper II deals with the participants' experiences of second-parent adoption processes. Paper III focuses on equality in parenting relations. Paper IV focuses on encounters with fertility clinics within public healthcare. Paper V highlights the children's reflections and shows how the children talk about fathers and donors.

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Section: Studies On Lesbian Family Life and Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pride and Prejudice : Lesbian Families in Contemporary Sweden

Malmquist

2015

Linköping Studies in Behavioural Science

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“…Disclosure, the lack of a genetic tie, the position of the donor and possible future interaction between the donor and child were issues that the counsellors found most important to discuss, which mirrors a previous study on counselling in gamete donation in general (Dutch Law: Wet donorgegevens kunstmatige bevruchting, 2002). For the practice of counselling it also seems valuable to discuss the experiences of parents that feelings about the position and role of the donor in the family can change over time (Daniels et al, 2009;Dutch law: Wet donorgegevens kunstmatige bevruchting, 2002;Gartrell, Bos, Goldberg, Deck, & van Rijn-van Gelderen, 2015;Hammarberg et al, 2008;Indekeu et al, 2013;Indekeu et al, 2014;Laruelle, Place, & Demeesterre, 2011;Salter-Ling, Hunter, & Glover, 2001;Scheib, Riordan, & Rubin, 2003;Visser et al, 2016;.…”

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“…Most of these studies call for professional assistance for parents to share donor-conception with their child. Parents choosing an identifiable donor show neutral to positive feelings regarding their decision (Gartrell et al, 2015;Scheib et al, 2003). Most children with an identifiable donor wish to receive information from him to learn about the donor and themselves.…”

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Counsellors’ practices in donor sperm treatment

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When intended parents choose to have donor sperm treatment (DST), this may entail wide-ranging and long-lasting psychosocial implications related to the social parent not having a genetic tie with the child, how to disclose donor-conception and future donor contact. Counselling by qualified professionals is recommended to help intended parents cope with these implications. The objective of this study is to present findings and insights about how counsellors execute their counselling practices. We performed a qualitative study that included 13 counsellors working in the 11 clinics offering DST in the Netherlands. We held a focus group discussion and individual face-to-face semi-structured interviews, which were fully transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. The counsellors combined screening for eligibility and guidance within one session. They acted according to their individual knowledge and clinical experience and had different opinions on the issues they discussed with intended parents, which resulted in large practice variations. The counsellors were dependent on the admission policies of the clinics, which were mainly limited to regulating access to psychosocial counselling, which also lead to a variety of counselling practices. This means that evidence-based guidelines on counselling in DST need to be developed to provide consistent counselling with less practice variation.

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“…The most common reasons for choosing identity-release sperm donation stated by heterosexual-couple, lesbian-couple, and single-woman parents in a US study were that this gave the child the option of getting more information about the donor, including his identity, and the option to be able to meet him (29). In a US study of 129 lesbian mothers, most of them were satisfied with their choice of an anonymous, known, or identifiable donor (30). Those who had selected an open-identity donor were most satisfied with their choice, both because they avoided potential custody conflicts and/or involvement from a third person, and because offspring would have access to information about the donor.…”

Section: Motivation For Choosing Identity-release Donationmentioning

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Psychosocial aspects of identity-release gamete donation – perspectives of donors, recipients, and offspring

Svanberg

Sydsjö

Lampic

2019

Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences

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Donor conception creates families with varying genetic linkage between family members. This may have short-term as well as lifelong psychosocial consequences for all involved. Gamete donors have traditionally been anonymous to recipients and offspring, but there is a growing trend towards identity-release donor programmes that give offspring the right to obtain the donor's identity. This review aims to provide an overview of the perspectives of donors and recipients and offspring involved in identity-release donation. The results show that both oocyte and sperm donors have primarily altruistic motives, and recipients, in particular lesbian and single women, are generally open about the donation to their offspring. The few existing studies on offspring perspectives indicate that those who are aware of their donor conception appear to be interested in contact with the donor, and most donors are open to such contact. Investigations of donors and recipients indicate a need for more counselling and support to manage family life with varying genetic linkage within and outside the family unit. This includes preparing for and managing future contact between the donor and his/her family and donor offspring and their family, as well as between donor siblings and their respective families.

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Satisfaction with known, open-identity, or unknown sperm donors: reports from lesbian mothers of 17-year-old adolescents

Abstract: Donor access and custody concerns were the primary themes mentioned by lesbian mothers regarding their (dis)satisfaction with the type of sperm donor they had selected.

Cited by 23 publications

References 26 publications

Pride and Prejudice : Lesbian Families in Contemporary Sweden

Pride and Prejudice : Lesbian Families in Contemporary Sweden

Counsellors’ practices in donor sperm treatment

Psychosocial aspects of identity-release gamete donation – perspectives of donors, recipients, and offspring

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