A long-term study reports 'no difference' in psychological wellbeing in children born with assisted reproduction and those born naturally.
, is also the first to investigate prospectively the effect of the age at which children were told about their conception. "Findings suggest that telling children about their biological origins early – before they start school – can be advantageous for family relationships and healthy adjustment," the researchers said.
There were no differences between families formed by egg donation, sperm donation, surrogacy, or unassisted conception in maternal anxiety or depression, the quality of parental or family relationships, positive or negative parenting, mothers' acceptance of their adult children, or the openness of family communications. Nor were there any differences in the young adults' psychological adjustment, perceptions of maternal acceptance, or quality of family relationships.
Lead researcher Susan Golombok, professor emerita of family research at Cambridge, said: "Today, there are so many more families created by assisted reproduction that it just seems quite ordinary. But 20 years ago, when we started this study, attitudes were very different. It was thought that having a genetic link was very important and without one, relationships wouldn’t work well.
The authors further explained: "It seems that the absence of biological relatedness is not in itself detrimental to positive family relationships for children who are raised by their non-biological parents from the start. Instead, in such families, it appears that the absence of a biological link matters less for children than the quality of family relationships."
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