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• They Say: The IVF Kids Are All Right

  Here’s some good news for families with kids conceived through IVF – at adolescence, they show no differences with families with children conceived “naturally.” A study from the University of Leuven in Belgium, published in the journal Human Reproduction, looked at families with 15 and 16 year old children who had participated in a similar study when their children were two years old. Both parents and children of IVF families and non-IVF families filled out questionnaires assessing the parents’ parenting style and stress, and the teens’ psychosocial adjustment. Both teens and parents filled out both surveys. Read More... Posted Nov 18 2008, 05:06 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: teens, IVF, families, adolescents, they say, adjustment, parenting after infertility, in vitro

• The (Donor) Kids Are All Right

  Two new studies show that children who were conceived via donor gametes or surrogacy ought to be told of their origins as soon as possible. But those kids are doing just as well and are just as close with their parents as those whose kids were conceived "naturally" according to the Centre for Family Research at Cambridge University.  One study showed that children who were told of their origin early on Read More... Posted Jul 11 2008, 12:02 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parents, fathers, mothers, infertility, donor sperm, surrogacy, donor eggs, family relationships, adjustment, Centre for Family Research, secrecy