Golombok S, Cook R, Bish A, Murray C
Clinical and Health Psychology Research Centre, City University, London, UK.
J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol. 1993;14 Suppl:17-22.
The creation of families by means of the new reproductive technologies has raised important questions about the consequences for parent-child relationships, particularly where gamete donation has been used to conceive the child. Preliminary findings are presented of a study of the quality of parenting in families created as a result of the two most widely used reproductive technologies, in vitro fertilization and donor insemination, in comparison with a control group of families with a naturally conceived child and a control group of adoptive families. The quality of parenting was assessed using a standardized interview with the mother, and mothers and fathers completed questionnaire measures of stress associated with parenting. The results showed that the quality of parenting in families with a child conceived by assisted conception is superior to that shown by families with a naturally conceived child. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding the role of genetic ties in parent-child relationships.
借助新的生殖技术组建家庭引发了有关亲子关系后果的重要问题，尤其是在使用配子捐赠来孕育孩子的情况下。本文呈现了一项初步研究结果，该研究对比了两组对照组家庭（一组是自然受孕孩子的家庭，另一组是收养家庭），探究了因两种最广泛使用的生殖技术（体外受精和供精人工授精）而组建的家庭中的养育质量。养育质量通过对母亲进行标准化访谈来评估，父母双方还完成了与养育相关压力的问卷调查。结果显示，通过辅助受孕生育孩子的家庭的养育质量优于自然受孕孩子的家庭。本文将根据这些发现对理解基因联系在亲子关系中的作用的意义进行讨论。
