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Children born through reproductive donation: A longitudinal study of psychological adjustment (2012)
Journal Article
Golombok, S., Blake, L., Casey, P., Roman, G., & Jadva, V. (2013). Children born through reproductive donation: A longitudinal study of psychological adjustment. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54(6), 653-660. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12015

Background: Parenting and children's adjustment were examined in 30 surrogacy families, 31 egg donation families, 35 donor insemination families, and 53 natural conception families. Methods: Parenting was assessed at age 3 by a standardized interview... Read More about Children born through reproductive donation: A longitudinal study of psychological adjustment.

Marital stability and quality in families created by assisted reproduction techniques: A follow-up study (2012)
Journal Article
Blake, L., Casey, P., Jadva, V., & Golombok, S. (2012). Marital stability and quality in families created by assisted reproduction techniques: A follow-up study. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 25(7), 678-683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.09.006

An increasing number of children are being born with the use of assisted reproduction techniques such as donor insemination, egg donation and surrogacy. There have been concerns that the use of these third-party reproduction techniques may have a neg... Read More about Marital stability and quality in families created by assisted reproduction techniques: A follow-up study.

Is disclosure in the best interests of children conceived by donation? (2012)
Book Chapter
Appleby, J. B., Blake, L., & Freeman, T. (2012). Is disclosure in the best interests of children conceived by donation?. In M. Richards, G. Pennings, & J. Appleby (Eds.), Reproductive Donation - Practice, Policy and Bioethics (231-249). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139026390.013

In families in which parents conceived using donated sperm or donated eggs, only one parent will be the genetic parent of the child: the mother in the case of sperm donation and the father in the case of egg donation. Parents can choose to tell or no... Read More about Is disclosure in the best interests of children conceived by donation?.

Surrogacy families 10 years on: Relationship with the surrogate, decisions over disclosure and children's understanding of their surrogacy origins (2012)
Journal Article
Jadva, V., Blake, L., Casey, P., & Golombok, S. (2012). Surrogacy families 10 years on: Relationship with the surrogate, decisions over disclosure and children's understanding of their surrogacy origins. Human Reproduction, 27(10), 3008-3014. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/des273

BACKGROUND This study aimed to prospectively examine families created using surrogacy over a 10-year period in the UK with respect to intending parents' and children's relationship with the surrogate mother, parents' decisions over disclosure and chi... Read More about Surrogacy families 10 years on: Relationship with the surrogate, decisions over disclosure and children's understanding of their surrogacy origins.