Secrecy’
What Can Artificial Reproduction Learn From Adoption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12583143 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erica Haimes (University of Stirling, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-61 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Law Policy and the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-9939 • E-ISSN: 1464-3707 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/lawfam/2.1.46 |
| PMID | 12449953 |
| OpenAlex | W2045535432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
Frequent comparisons are made between adoptive families and those families formed through artificial means of reproduction, particularly those involving sperm and egg donation. It is claimed that problems from the latter arising out of the extent of the child's knowledge of his/her parentage may be handled with reference to the solutions found within adoption to similar problems. This paper examines those claims and questions the initial premise. It argues that problems remain within British adoption on the issue of openness, at the level of legislation, administration and professional practice. It argues that problems remain because of an uneasiness which still persists about adoption as an institution. Moves to make the practice of adoption more open have, in effect, disguised but not eliminated the uneasiness. An attempt to extend those 'solutions' to artificial reproduction might (a) suggest similar ambivalence about those practices and (b) lead to claims which again disguise rather than solve those ambiguities. The paper concludes therefore that adoption might be a useful precedent for artificial reproduction but more in the way it poses questions which remain to be answered, than as a source of solutions for direct application
Ambivalence · Autonomy · Biology · Egg donation · Epistemology · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Institution · Law and economics · Legislation · Openness to experience · Political science · Premise · Public relations · Reproduction · Secrecy · Sociology · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Law · Social Psychology
What does it mean to be a donor offspring? The identity experiences of adults conceived by donor insemination and the implications for counselling and therapy
The social responsibility of gamete providers
Contemporary adoptive kinship
The implications of adoption for donor offspring following donor‐assisted conception
Families formed as a result of donor insemination
Secrecy and Openness in Donor Insemination
The Best Interests of the Child in Assisted Human Reproduction
Secrecy and Openness in Donor Insemination
The psychology of assisted reproduction — or psychology assisting its reproduction? a response
Saviours and satyrs
Law and the Regulation of Family Secrets
Donor insemination
The Kin in the Gene
| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2013 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |