Murray C, Golombok S
Family and Child Psychology Research Centre, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB, UK.
Hum Reprod. 2005 Jun;20(6):1655-60. doi: 10.1093/humrep/deh823. Epub 2005 Feb 25.
Findings are presented of the second phase of a longitudinal study of solo-mother families created through donor insemination (DI).
At the time of the child's second birthday, 21 solo DI mother families were compared with 46 married DI families on standardized interview and questionnaire measures of the psychological well being of the mothers, mother-child relationships and the psychological development of the child.
The solo DI mothers showed greater pleasure in their child and lower levels of anger accompanied by a perception of their child as less 'clingy'. Fewer emotional and behavioural difficulties were shown by children of solo than married DI mothers.
The findings from this first cohort of solo DI families to be studied lend further weight to the view that these women represent a distinct subgroup of single parents, who, out of a strong desire for a child, have made the active choice to go it alone. Moreover, this route to parenthood does not necessarily seem to have an adverse effect on mothers' parenting ability or the psychological adjustment of the child.
本文呈现了一项针对通过捐赠人工授精（DI）组建的单亲母亲家庭的纵向研究第二阶段的研究结果。
在孩子两岁时，对21个单亲捐赠人工授精母亲家庭与46个已婚捐赠人工授精家庭进行了比较，比较内容包括对母亲心理健康、母子关系以及孩子心理发展的标准化访谈和问卷调查。
单亲捐赠人工授精母亲对孩子表现出更多愉悦感，愤怒程度较低，且感觉孩子不那么“缠人”。单亲捐赠人工授精母亲的孩子比已婚捐赠人工授精母亲的孩子表现出更少的情绪和行为问题。
对首批研究的单亲捐赠人工授精家庭的研究结果进一步支持了这样一种观点，即这些女性代表了单亲家长中的一个独特亚群体，她们出于对孩子的强烈渴望，主动选择独自抚养孩子。此外，这种成为父母的方式似乎不一定会对母亲的育儿能力或孩子的心理调适产生不利影响。
