News Finding: That, the 42-year-old Minneapolis mom says, is because she and her husband began explaining things early.
Paper Finding: The European study found no differences in emotional or behavioral problems between children conceived by either sperm donation or egg donation , and comparison groups of IVF, naturally conceived and early-adopted children.
News Context: For Jill Wolfe's kids, surrogacy seems completely natural. That, the 42-year-old Minneapolis mom says, is because she and her husband began explaining things early. As proof of how normal this all seems to Eliana, now 6, Wolfe recalls the day her daughter told a friend about the surrogacy.
Paper Context: In the European Study of Assisted Reproduction Families, not one set of parents from a representative sample of more than 100 donor insemination families had disclosed the donor conception to their child by early school age , and less than 10% had done so by early adolescence . The European study found no differences in emotional or behavioral problems between children conceived by either sperm donation or egg donation , and comparison groups of IVF, naturally conceived and early-adopted children. However, as reported above, almost all these children were unaware of their donor conception.