Dr Lucy Blake's Outputs (49)

Marital stability and quality in families created by assisted reproduction techniques: A follow-up study (2012)
Journal Article

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

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

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.

Families created through surrogacy: Mother–child relationships and children's psychological adjustment at age 7 (2011)
Journal Article

Each year, an increasing number of children are born through surrogacy and thus lack a genetic and/or gestational link with their mother. This study examined the impact of surrogacy on mother-child relationships and children's psychological adjustmen... Read More about Families created through surrogacy: Mother–child relationships and children's psychological adjustment at age 7.

A longitudinal study of recipients' views and experiences of intra-family egg donation (2011)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND
For the past 10 years, we have been carrying out a longitudinal investigation of egg donation families in the UK; a subsample of recipients in these families had a child by egg donation from a sister or sister-in-law. In response to the c... Read More about A longitudinal study of recipients' views and experiences of intra-family egg donation.

Children conceived by gamete donation: Psychological adjustment and mother-child relationships at age 7 (2011)
Journal Article

An increasing number of babies are being born using donated sperm, where the child lacks a genetic link to the father, or donated eggs, where the child lacks a genetic link to the mother. This study examined the impact of telling children about their... Read More about Children conceived by gamete donation: Psychological adjustment and mother-child relationships at age 7.

Secrecy, disclosure and everything in-between: Decisions of parents of children conceived by donor insemination, egg donation and surrogacy (2011)
Journal Article

Abstract This study examined families where children lack a genetic and/or gestational link with their parents. A total of 101 families (36 donor insemination families, 32 egg donation families and 33 surrogacy families) were interviewed when the chi... Read More about Secrecy, disclosure and everything in-between: Decisions of parents of children conceived by donor insemination, egg donation and surrogacy.

'Daddy ran out of tadpoles': How parents tell their children that they are donor conceived, and what their 7-year-olds understand (2010)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: The present study explored the process of disclosure in gamete donation families in the UK. METHODS: Interviews were conducted with 23 mothers and 15 fathers who had told their 7-year-old child about the nature of their conception. Twelve... Read More about 'Daddy ran out of tadpoles': How parents tell their children that they are donor conceived, and what their 7-year-olds understand.

Parent-child relationships and the psychological well-being of 18-year-old adolescents conceived by in vitro fertilisation (2009)
Journal Article

This article presents the findings of the first study to have followed up children conceived by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) to late adolescence. As close as possible to their eighteenth birthday, standardised interviews and questionnaires were admin... Read More about Parent-child relationships and the psychological well-being of 18-year-old adolescents conceived by in vitro fertilisation.