Constructing and enacting kinship in sister-to-sister egg donation families
A Multi-Family Member Interview Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanna Van Parys (0000-0001-9049-3934, Psychology and Educational Sciences Ghent University Belgium, corresponding author), Provoost (0000-0003-4451-3425, Ghent University), Veerle Provoost (Bioethics Institute Ghent Ghent University Belgium), Kristin Zeiler (0000-0002-2862-3731, Division of Health and Society Department of Medical and Health Sciences Linköping University Sweden), P De Sutter (0000-0002-8792-3814, Ghent University Hospital), G Pennings (0000-0003-0754-8055, Ghent University), Ann Buysse (0000-0001-5047-3293, Psychology and Educational Sciences Ghent University Belgium) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 847-862 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.12533 |
| PMID | 27917504 |
| OpenAlex | W2559859888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 25 |
Although intra-familial egg donation has been practiced for more than 15 years in several countries, little is known about family relationships in this family type. Framed within the new kinship studies, this article focuses on the experiential dimension of kinship in sister-to-sister egg donation families: how is kinship 'unpacked' and 'reconstructed' in this specific family constellation? Qualitative data analysis of interviews with receiving parents, their donating sisters and the donor children revealed six themes: (1) being connected as an extended family; (2) disambiguating motherhood; (3) giving and receiving as structuring processes; (4) acknowledging and managing the 'special' link between donor and child; (5) making sense of the union between father and donor; and (6) kinship constructions being challenged. This study showed the complex and continuous balancing of meanings related to the mother-child dyad, the donor-child dyad and the donor-father dyad. What stood out was the complexity of, on the one hand cherishing the genetic link with the child allowed by the sisters' egg donation, while, on the other, managing the meanings related to this link, by, for instance, acknowledging, downsizing, symbolising, and differentiating it from the mother-child bond.(A Virtual Abstract of this paper can be accessed at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_979cmCmR9rLrKuD7z0ycA
Aesthetics · Biology · Developmental psychology · Donation · Dyad · Egg donation · Fictive kinship · Genealogy · Identity (music · Kinship · Political science · Qualitative research · Sibling · Sister · Sociology · Anthropology · Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy · Child Welfare and Adoption · Gender Studies · Genetics · History · Law · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |