Donor-Conceived Adults' Perceptions of Parenting, Adjustment, and Parent-Offspring Relationships

This thesis systematically assessed parenting, adjustment and relationship dynamics from donor-conceived adults' perspectives and made comparisons to spontaneously-conceived adults. Cross-sectional comparisons were made among donor-conceived participants based on circumstances of donor conception discovery. Results suggest being donor-conceived may have some beneficial effect on recalled parenting, but an adverse effect on adjustment and parent-offspring relationships.