“…In ART families, the primary benefits that promote disclosure to children are a desire for openness in the family and a desire to avoid secrecy (Lindblad, Gottlieb, & Lalos, 2000; Lycett et al, 2005). The benefits of openness in families created through ART may be forecasted by the findings advocating openness in adoptive families, a family type that confronts many of the same privacy issues as families created through ART (Berge, Mendenhall, Wrobel, Grotevant, & McRoy, 2006; Groth, Bonnardel, Devis, Martin, & Vousden, 1987; Jones & Hackett, 2007; Logan, 1999). According to Lycett et al (2005), 13% of families surveyed had already told the child of his or her genetic origins, and another 26% intended to tell the child in the future.…”