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This book is about the psychological experiences of women and men who have used donor conception to create their families. The authors offer diverse accounts of their clinical, research, and personal experiences. They describe the challenge of powerful conscious and unconscious fantasies that can be aroused and how these may reawaken early anxieties and developmental struggles. Whilst recipients of donated eggs or sperm may think they are simply acquiring a factor of reproduction, they are also receiving the genetic history of another family. The sensitive management of these relationships is...

This book is about the psychological experiences of women and men who have used donor conception to create their families. The 2005 amendment to legislation in the UK gives donor-conceived young people the right to identify information concerning their origins when they reach the age of eighteen. Genetic links between the donors' families and recipient families are creating new patterns of relationships with significant psychological implications.

The authors in this book offer accounts of their diverse clinical research and personal experiences. They describe the challenge of...

The status of the American family has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years. As demographic changes make our country more multicultural and as new types of families continue to form and become more common, it is essential for sociologists, social workers, family researchers, and psychologists to understand the full range of diversity in American families. However, to varying extents, African American families, Latino families, Asian American families, poverty-stricken and near-poor families, lesbian and gay families, single-parent families, and stepfamilies have been...