Access to services at assisted reproductive technology clinics: A survey of policies and practices

Stern, Judy E.; Cramer, Catherine P.; Garrod, Andrew; Green, Ronald M.

doi:10.1067/mob.2001.111793

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“…16 Despite more than 3 decades of crosssectional research demonstrating that the psychological adjustment of children is unrelated to their parents' sexual orientation, the legitimacy of lesbian and gay biological, foster, and adoptive parenting is still under scrutiny. 8,15,17 Contemporary critics point to a dearth of longitudinal studies on lesbian families and limited data on adolescents who have been living in lesbian or gay households since birth. 15,18 Within the cohort of families headed by same-sex parents in the United States, the first generation of children who were conceived by lesbians through donor insemination (DI) is coming of age.…”

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US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Psychological Adjustment of 17-Year-Old Adolescents

2010

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT:There is a paucity of data on the psychological adjustment of adolescents who have been reared in lesbian households since birth. No other study has followed a cohort of such offspring from conception through adolescence, prospectively and longitudinally. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:This study expands our understanding of psychological well-being in adolescent biological offspring of lesbian mothers and therefore has implications for the pediatric care of these adolescents and for public policies concerning same-sex parenting.abstract OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to document the psychological adjustment of adolescents who were conceived through donor insemination by lesbian mothers who enrolled before these offspring were born in the largest, longest running, prospective, longitudinal study of same-sex-parented families. METHODS:Between 1986 and 1992, 154 prospective lesbian mothers volunteered for a study that was designed to follow planned lesbian families from the index children's conception until they reached adulthood. Data for the current report were gathered through interviews and questionnaires that were completed by 78 index offspring when they were 10 and 17 years old and through interviews and Child Behavior Checklists that were completed by their mothers at corresponding times. The study is ongoing, with a 93% retention rate to date. RESULTS:According to their mothers' reports, the 17-year-old daughters and sons of lesbian mothers were rated significantly higher in social, school/academic, and total competence and significantly lower in social problems, rule-breaking, aggressive, and externalizing problem behavior than their age-matched counterparts in Achenbach's normative sample of American youth. Within the lesbian family sample, no Child Behavior Checklist differences were found among adolescent offspring who were conceived by known, as-yet-unknown, and permanently unknown donors or between offspring whose mothers were still together and offspring whose mothers had separated. CONCLUSIONS:Adolescents who have been reared in lesbian-mother families since birth demonstrate healthy psychological adjustment. These findings have implications for the clinical care of adolescents and for pediatricians who are consulted on matters that pertain to same-sex parenting. Pediatrics 2010;126:28-36

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US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Psychological Adjustment of 17-Year-Old Adolescents

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“…Even though the phrase "single women" may apply to both unpartnered heterosexual women and lesbian women in various relationship arrangements, it does not necessarily include all of these women. Research also shows that physicians do differentiate between these groups of women: for example, a survey of SART-affiliated clinics showed that a slightly higher percentage was willing to accept single, heterosexual women than lesbian couples (Stern, Cramer, Garrod, & Green, 2001).…”

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Excluding lesbian and single women? An analysis of U.S. fertility clinic websites

Johnson

2012

Women's Studies International Forum

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“…A 1998 survey of ART clinics found that 60% of clinics would accept sperm from brothers while many more would accept sisters (90%) and friends (80%) as egg donors (11). The number of requests for intergenerational familial gamete donation and the number of these procedures performed is also unknown.…”

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Using family members as gamete donors or surrogates

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Fertility and Sterility

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Access to services at assisted reproductive technology clinics: A survey of policies and practices

Cited by 37 publications

References 4 publications

US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Psychological Adjustment of 17-Year-Old Adolescents

US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Psychological Adjustment of 17-Year-Old Adolescents

Excluding lesbian and single women? An analysis of U.S. fertility clinic websites

Using family members as gamete donors or surrogates

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