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Offspring created as a result of donor insemination: a study of family relationships, child adjustment, and disclosureEmma Lycett
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, United Kingdom
Fertil Steril 82:172-9. 2004..To compare the quality of family relationships and children's socioemotional adjustment in families created by donor insemination where parents tended either toward disclosure or nondisclosure...- Going it alone: solo mothers and their infants conceived by donor inseminationClare Murray
Family and Child Psychology Research Center, City University, London, England
Am J Orthopsychiatry 75:242-53. 2005..Solo DI mothers appeared to be more open toward disclosing the donor conception to the child than were married DI mothers... - Development and validation of a new screening tool for hypoactive sexual desire disorder: The Brief Profile of Female Sexual Function (B-PFSF)John Rust
The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Gynecol Endocrinol 23:638-44. 2007..To develop a screening tool to allow a postmenopausal woman to determine whether to seek evaluation for hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD)... - Parenting infants conceived by gamete donationSusan Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, United Kingdom
J Fam Psychol 18:443-52. 2004..It was concluded that infants conceived by egg or sperm donation did not appear to be at risk for parenting difficulties... - Families created by gamete donation: follow-up at age 2S Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Hum Reprod 20:286-93. 2005..Findings are presented of the second phase of a longitudinal study of families created through gamete donation... - Surrogacy families: parental functioning, parent-child relationships and children's psychological development at age 2Susan Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:213-22. 2006..Findings are presented of the second phase of a longitudinal study of families created through surrogacy... - Families created through surrogacy arrangements: parent-child relationships in the 1st year of lifeSusan Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Reseaerch Centre, City University, London, United Kingdom
Dev Psychol 40:400-11. 2004.... - Unusual familiesSusan Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Reprod Biomed Online 10:9-12. 2005..The introduction of assisted reproduction has led to unusual forms of procreation. This article describes the social consequences of lesbian motherhood and of families headed by single heterosexual mothers... - Practitioner review: outcomes for parents and children following non-traditional conception: what do clinicians need to know?Susan Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:303-15. 2003..The birth of the first 'test-tube' baby in 1978 has led to the creation of family types that would not otherwise have existed... - Children with lesbian parents: a community studySusan Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Research Center, City University, London, England
Dev Psychol 39:20-33. 2003..Findings are in line with those of earlier investigations showing positive mother-child relationships and well-adjusted children... - The European study of assisted reproduction families: the transition to adolescenceS Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, UK
Hum Reprod 17:830-40. 2002..Findings are presented of the second phase of a European longitudinal study of families created by assisted reproduction. The present investigation reports on data obtained during the child's transition to adolescence... - Families with children conceived by donor insemination: a follow-up at age twelveSusan Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, United Kingdom
Child Dev 73:952-68. 2002..The DI children were well adjusted in terms of their social and emotional development. The findings are discussed with respect to the secrecy surrounding DI and the imbalance in genetic relatedness between the parents and the child... - Egg donation parents and their children: follow-up at age 12 yearsClare Murray
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, United Kingdom
Fertil Steril 85:610-8. 2006..To assess the quality of parenting and psychological adjustment of egg donation families as the child approaches adolescence in comparison with donor insemination (DI) and IVF families... - The "test-tube" generation: parent-child relationships and the psychological well-being of in vitro fertilization children at adolescenceS Golombok
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, UK
Child Dev 72:599-608. 2001..The IVF children were found to be functioning well and did not differ from the adoptive or naturally conceived children on any of the assessments of social or emotional adjustment... - Solo mothers and their donor insemination infants: follow-up at age 2 yearsC Murray
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB, UK
Hum Reprod 20:1655-60. 2005..Findings are presented of the second phase of a longitudinal study of solo-mother families created through donor insemination (DI)... - Condom failure among homosexual menS Golombok
Department of Psychology, City University, London
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2:404-9. 1989..Examination of the reasons for breakage and a review of the literature indicated that physical stress on the condom is likely to be a major factor in these incidents... - Oocyte and semen donation: a survey of UK licensed centresC Murray
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Hum Reprod 15:2133-9. 2000..Clinics also reported a shortage of both oocyte and semen donors from specific ethnic groups... - Children raised in fatherless families from infancy: a follow-up of children of lesbian and single heterosexual mothers at early adolescenceFiona Maccallum
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:1407-19. 2004..An increasing number of lesbian women and single heterosexual women are bringing up children with no male involvement. This study follows up to adolescence a sample of children raised in fatherless families from birth or early infancy... - Prenatal stress and gender role behavior in girls and boys: a longitudinal, population studyMelissa Hines
Department of Psychology, City University, London, United Kingdom
Horm Behav 42:126-34. 2002..Our results suggest that prenatal stress does not influence the development of gender role behavior in boys and appears to have relatively little, if any, influence on gender role behavior in girls... - Surrogacy: the experiences of surrogate mothersVasanti Jadva
City University, London, United Kingdom
Hum Reprod 18:2196-204. 2003..This study examined the motivations, experiences and psychological consequences of surrogacy for surrogate mothers... - Surrogacy: the experience of commissioning couplesFiona Maccallum
City University, London Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, Northampton Square, UK
Hum Reprod 18:1334-42. 2003..Findings are presented of a study of families with a child created through a surrogacy arrangement. This paper focuses on the commissioning couples' reports of their experiences... - Testosterone during pregnancy and gender role behavior of preschool children: a longitudinal, population studyMelissa Hines
Department of Psychology, City University, London, UK
Child Dev 73:1678-87. 2002..Although other, unmeasured factors may explain the relation, the results suggest that normal variability in T levels prenatally may contribute to the development of individual differences in the gender role behavior of preschool girls... - Children's play narratives: what they tell us about lesbian-mother familiesBeth Perry
Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, England
Am J Orthopsychiatry 74:467-79. 2004..Girls' narratives showed more affection than boys' and were more strongly associated with mothers' interview measures, suggesting that girls' play narratives reveal a more accurate picture of family relationships... - To tell or not to tell: the decision-making process of egg-donation parentsClare Murray
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Hum Fertil (Camb) 6:89-95. 2003..The findings demonstrate the importance of understanding the views of egg-donation parents themselves, if openness is to be encouraged in these families... - School-aged children of donor insemination: a study of parents' disclosure patternsE Lycett
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK
Hum Reprod 20:810-9. 2005..This study compared the thoughts, feelings and experiences of DI parents who were inclined towards openness with those who were inclined towards non-disclosure... - Condom use among homosexual menS Golombok
Department of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London
AIDS Care 1:27-33. 1989..The reason for the apparent discrepancy is that those who continue to engage in high risk behaviour tend to be particularly sexually active... - Discussion (day 1 session 1): Assisted conception and moral philosophyJohn Robertson
Reprod Biomed Online 10:21-3. 2005 - Embryo donation families: mothers' decisions regarding disclosure of donor conceptionFiona Maccallum
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Hum Reprod 22:2888-95. 2007..It is not known whether parents in embryo donation families will tend towards the adoption model, therefore, we studied families with a child conceived using donated embryos... - Parenting and child development in families with a child conceived through embryo donationFiona Maccallum
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
J Fam Psychol 21:278-87. 2007..The children were not at increased risk of psychological problems. The study provides interesting but preliminary findings on parent-child relationships and child development in a new family form... - Adoption by lesbian couplesSusan Golombok
BMJ 324:1407-8. 2002 - Behavioral and cognitive development as well as family functioning of twins conceived by assisted reproduction: findings from a large population studyFrancois Olivennes
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
Fertil Steril 84:725-33. 2005..However, twins showed significantly lower levels of cognitive functioning. CONCLUSION(S): Greater difficulties in parenting and child development were experienced by IVF/ICSI families with twins than by IVF/ICSI families with singletons... - Psychological assessment of mothers and their assisted reproduction triplets at age 3 yearsTabitha Freeman
Centre for Family Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
Reprod Biomed Online 15:13-7. 2007..However, the triplets and twins showed a delay in some aspects of language development in comparison with the singleton children... - Profile of Female Sexual Function: a patient-based, international, psychometric instrument for the assessment of hypoactive sexual desire in oophorectomized womenColleen A McHorney
Indiana University School of Medicine and Regenstrief Institute Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Menopause 11:474-83. 2004..Robust psychometric properties have been established in a large number of geographic regions and languages, making it useful for assessing therapeutic change in multinational clinical trials... - Discussion (day 2 session 3): Ethics of choosing the sex of our offspringSusan Golombok
Reprod Biomed Online 10:125-8. 2005