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Assisted reproduction: what's in it for children?
Author(s) -
BLYTH ERIC
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1990.tb00361.x
Subject(s) - reproduction , publicity , social reproduction , sociology , political science , social science , law , biology , ecology , social capital
SUMMARY. Recent technological advances in assisted reproduction and publicity accompanying surrogacy arrangements have raised questions about the extent to which such practices should be subjected to formal regulatory control. For the most part, the consequences for children created following the successful application of assisted reproduction techniques have been ignored. This paper examines the implications of the techniques and the proposals for their regulation for these children