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May 2026

How intended parents negotiate sperm donor selection in Canada
Constrained choices: Navigating agency and social structures in sperm donor selection. (Zeghiche, 2026)
 • Laura Runnels
Research captures how families talk about donor conception
New families, multiple stories: Conversational processes, origin stories, and donor-conceived children (Navarro-Marshall, 2026)
 • Laura Runnels
Insight on how queer adults navigate competing values and constraints
“Are we as queer people not the pioneers of found family?”: Preferences and tensions in deciding how to become parents (Bornstein et al, 2026)
 • Laura Runnels
What future doctors, lawyers, and theologians think about assisted reproduction
Attitudes towards medically assisted reproduction among students in three Euro-Mediterranean countries. (Tutić Grokša, 2025)
 • Laura Runnels
Parental warmth, confidence, and emotional engagement with their children did not differ by biological role in two-mom families
Relationships between mothers and children in families formed by shared biological motherhood. (Golombok, 2023)
 • Laura Runnels
Rejection from sperm donation can feel like a blow to identity
Coping with rejection as a sperm donor: A qualitative study of the personal impact of rejection and new health information. (Thirup, 2025)
 • Laura Runnels
Mothers who disclose before age 7 were significantly less anxious and depressed
A longitudinal study of families formed through third-party assisted reproduction: Mother–child relationships and child adjustment from infancy to…
 • Laura Runnels
DC Journal Club - April Round Up
Please let me know if you have any feedback for the newsletter or topics you’d like me to explore.
 • Laura Runnels

April 2026

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