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Report
Satisfaction with Known, Open-identity, or Unknown Sperm Donors
Reports from lesbian mothers of 17-year-old adolescents
January 2015
This report from the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study explores lesbian mothers’ satisfaction with their use of a known, open-identity, or unknown sperm donor and whether satisfaction with donor selection was associated with psychological health problems in the adolescent offspring. It was published in Fertility and Sterility in January 2015.
Highlights
The ongoing U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study has followed the same cohort of offspring from conception to adolescence.
Over three-quarters of mothers were satisfied with their choice of a known, open-identity, or unknown sperm donor.
The mothers’ satisfaction with donor type was unrelated to the presence or absence of psychological health problems in their children.