Families Created by Egg Donation: Parent-Child Relationship Quality in Infancy.
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Publication Date
2019-07Journal Title
Child Dev
ISSN
0009-3920
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
90
Issue
4
Pages
1333-1349
Language
eng
Type
Article
Physical Medium
Print-Electronic
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Imrie, S., Jadva, V., Fishel, S., & Golombok, S. (2019). Families Created by Egg Donation: Parent-Child Relationship Quality in Infancy.. Child Dev, 90 (4), 1333-1349. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13124
Abstract
Increasing numbers of children are being born through egg donation and thus do not share a genetic relationship with their mother. Parent-infant relationship quality was examined in 85 egg donation families and a comparison group of 65 in vitro fertilization families (infant M = 11 months). Standardized interview and observational measures were used to assess mother-infant and father-infant relationship quality at the representational and behavioral levels. Few differences were found between family types in parents' representations of the parent-infant relationship. Differences were found between family types in the observational assessment of mother-infant relationship quality, indicating less optimal interactions in egg donation families. Findings suggest that egg donation families function well in infancy overall, but there may be subtle yet meaningful differences in mother-infant interaction quality.
Keywords
Humans, Fertilization in Vitro, Oocyte Donation, Father-Child Relations, Mother-Child Relations, Adult, Infant, Female, Male
Sponsorship
This research was supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award [097857/Z/11/Z] and a CHESS-ESRC studentship.
Funder references
Wellcome Trust (097857/Z/11/Z)
ESRC (1233856)
Identifiers
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13124
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/280506
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