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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volume 36 Issue 8, Pages 1429 - 1441

Published Online: 7 Dec 2006

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New Reproductive Technology and the Family: The Parent-Child Relationship Following in vitro Fertilization
Hilde Colpin*, Koen Demyttenaere Lieve Vandemeulebroecke*
  *Centre for Family Pedagogy, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)   Department of Psychiatry, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven (Belgium)
Correspondence to   Requests for reprints to: Hilde Colpin, Vesaliusstraat 2, 3000 Leuven, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
Copyright 1995 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry
KEYWORDS
New reproductive technology • in vitro fertilization • parent-child relationship • parental functioning

ABSTRACT

 Abstract

Parent-child relationships and the parents' psychosocial functioning were assessed in families with a 24–30–month-old, single born child conceived by homologous in vitro fertilization (IVF) and in a control group of families with a naturally conceived child. The investigation included behavioural observations of mother-child interactions in the home, and self-rated questionnaires. No significant multivariate group effects were found for indicators of the parent-child relationship, nor for the parents' psychosocial functioning. However, in the case of IVF the employment status of the mother was associated with her behaviour towards her child: employed IVF-mothers showed less respect for their child's autonomy compared with both nonemployed IVF-mothers and employed control mothers.


Accepted manuscript received 8 November 1994

DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI)
10.1111/j.1469-7610.1995.tb01673.x About DOI

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