Kirkman Maggie, Rosenthal Doreen, Johnson Louise
Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.
Hum Reprod. 2007 Aug;22(8):2318-24. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dem138. Epub 2007 Jun 4.
Prompted by legislation in Victoria, Australia, permitting gamete donors to seek identifying details of people conceived from their gametes, this research investigated the views of adolescents from the general population on how parents can best talk to their donor-conceived adolescent children about their conception.
Qualitative interviews (six group discussions, n = two to six per group, and one individual interview) lasting c. 50 min with 25 secondary school students.
Naïve adolescents had views largely consistent with those of donor-conceived adults, for example, urging parental honesty, adaptation to individual children, and family cohesion. They identified the social father as the parent while acknowledging the significance of genetic connection to the donor. A minority asserted a preference for non-disclosure; all said that, if disclosed, it should be by parents.
This small study contributes to increasing understanding of communication within families about donor-assisted conception.
受澳大利亚维多利亚州一项立法的推动，该立法允许配子捐赠者获取由其配子受孕者的身份识别信息，本研究调查了普通人群中的青少年对于父母如何最好地与通过捐赠配子受孕的青春期子女谈论其受孕情况的看法。
对25名中学生进行了时长约50分钟的定性访谈（6次小组讨论，每组2至6人，以及1次个人访谈）。
天真的青少年的观点在很大程度上与通过捐赠配子受孕的成年人一致，例如，敦促父母诚实、根据每个孩子的情况进行调整以及保持家庭凝聚力。他们将社会意义上的父亲视为家长，同时承认与捐赠者的基因联系的重要性。少数人主张倾向于不透露；所有人都说，如果要透露，应该由父母来做。
这项小型研究有助于增进对家庭内部关于捐赠辅助受孕的沟通的理解。
