Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 523-532 , April 2010

Experiences of offspring searching for and contacting their donor siblings and donor

  • Vasanti Jadva

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Tabitha Freeman

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF, UK
    • ,
  • Wendy Kramer

      Affiliations

    • Donor Sibling Registry, PO Box 1571, Nederland, CO 80466, USA
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  • Susan Golombok

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF, UK

Received 3 April 2009 ,Revised 8 June 2009 ,Accepted 17 November 2009.

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 Vasanti Jadva was awarded a BSc and a PhD in Psychology at City University, London, UK, where she also worked as a Research Assistant at the Family and Child Psychology Research Centre. At present, she is a Research Associate at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, UK. She is currently working on a longitudinal study of families created using donor insemination, egg donation and surrogacy. She is also involved with a project examining individuals’ experiences of searching for, and finding, their (or their child’s) donor relations and on a study of single mothers who have chosen to parent alone from the outset.

PII: S1472-6483(10)00002-7

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.01.001

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 523-532 , April 2010

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