International Research

2026

August 2026: Experiences of insemination fraud: discovering and navigating unexpected and entangled connections (Astrid Indekeu, Merel Gootjes, Paul Enzlin & Maria Siermann)

July 2026: ESHRE position paper: international limits on the number of offspring per gamete donor  (Lucy Frith, Johanna Tassot, Aisling Ahlstrom, Dinka Pavičić Baldani, Carlos Calhaz-Jorge, Gueorgui Nikolov, Petra Thorn, Nathalie Vermeulen, Jackson Kirkman-Brown)

2025

November 2025: Donor conception and psychosocial support provisions across jurisdictions – what’s out there? (Sonja Goedeke, Astrid Indekeu & Marilyn Crawshaw)

September 2025: No gamete donation should be anonymous and undisclosed (Guido Pennings, Ph.D., Sonja Goedeke, Ph.D., Rosanna Hertz, Ph.D., Edson Borges, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Robert J. Norman, M.D.)

Sweden July 2025: Are open-identity donors prepared for release of their identity? Long-term follow-up of a national sample of oocyte and sperm donors (Claudia Lampic , Emilia Thorup , Marie Bladh , Elizabeth Nedstrand , Xana Brinck , Agneta Skoog Svanberg , Gunilla Sydsjö)

Netherlands Feb 2025: Enable families with donor-conceived children to tailor their family story. Recommendations for policy and practice regarding legal age limits for accessing donor information in The Netherlands (A. Indekeu, I. van Nistelrooij, N. O. M. Woestenburg & A. J. B. M. Maas)

Canada Jan 2025: “I’m trying to figure out who the hell I am”: Examining the psychosocial and mental health experience of individuals learning “Not Parent Expected” news from a direct-to-consumer DNA ancestry test (Juliette Careau, Maarten H.D. Larmuseau, Rebekah Drumsta & Rob Whitley)

2024

Australia Nov 2024: On the sensations of direct-to-consumer DNA testing: realisations, resemblance and relationships (Giselle Newton, Emma Kirby, Nicholas Carah and Romy Wilson Gray)

America July 2024: “The truth should not be hidden”: Experiences and Recommendations of Individuals Making NPE Discoveries Through Genetic Genealogy Databases (Olivia Schuman, Caroline Beit, Jill Oliver Robinson, Whitney Bash Brooks, Amy L. McGuire, Christi Guerrini)

2023

Canada 2023: ‘Once you open that Pandora’s box, you cannot close it’: a qualitative study on family relationships following insemination fraud (Sabrina Zeghiche, Isabel Côté, Kévin Lavoie)

2022

Netherlands 2022: Meeting multiple same-donor offspring: psychosocial challenges (Astrid Indekeu, Sophie H. Bolt & A. Janneke. B. M. Maas)

America 2022: Sociological Accounts of Donor Siblings’ Experiences: Their Importance for Self-Identity and New Kinship Relations (Rosanna Hertz)

2021

Netherlands Feb 2021: Factors associated with searching for people related through donor conception among donor-conceived people, parents, and donors: a systematic review (Astrid Indekeu, Ph.D, Janneke.B.M. Maas, Ph.D.,  Emily McCormick, M.P.Hc∙ Jean Benward, M.S.,  Joanna E. Scheib, Ph.D.)

2010

Australia April 2010: A critical analysis of sperm donation practices : the personal and social effects of disrupting the unity of biological and social relatedness for the offspring (Joanna Rose)