Psychological well-being and family functioning following identity-release gamete donation or standard IVF: follow-up of parents with adolescent children (Paulin, 2024)
Interesting article! It makes me wonder how the proportion of disclosing parents varies between parents who have worked with anonymous versus open ID donors. The self-selection bias is big issue with these studies as you flagged. Once the children have grown to adulthood it would be great if they would do a follow-up study with their perspectives considered as well.
Luckily this is part of the Swedish Study on Gamete Donation so they are doing much much more digging into all of these things! Sweden is also particularly unique in its longtime ban on anonymity and how they guarantee access to information (it becomes part of the child's medical record by default). https://www.umu.se/en/research/projects/swedish-study-on-gamete-donation/
Interesting article! It makes me wonder how the proportion of disclosing parents varies between parents who have worked with anonymous versus open ID donors. The self-selection bias is big issue with these studies as you flagged. Once the children have grown to adulthood it would be great if they would do a follow-up study with their perspectives considered as well.
Luckily this is part of the Swedish Study on Gamete Donation so they are doing much much more digging into all of these things! Sweden is also particularly unique in its longtime ban on anonymity and how they guarantee access to information (it becomes part of the child's medical record by default). https://www.umu.se/en/research/projects/swedish-study-on-gamete-donation/
Awesome!