Donor Conceived Person - Psychological and Social

Psychological and Social

The psychological and social impacts of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) on donor-conceived children and their families has gained a great deal of interest in recent years as this population has continued to grow. An increasing number of family-support organizations strongly encourage parents to openly discuss their children's origins, whether through donor insemination or following treatment with donated gametes. Studies suggest that the parents' level of comfort with their use of donor conception positively influences the mental health of their donor-conceived offspring.

Donor conceived people have fewer adolescence problems than children of divorce.

For most sperm or egg recipients, the choice between anonymous sperm or egg donor and a non-anonymous one is generally not of major importance. For the donor conceived children, on the other hand, not having the possibility of contacting or knowing almost nothing about the biological father or mother may be devastating.