I remember seeing a study a few years back that looked at the subject with "test tube" kids vs normal vs kids from donated egg cells. No differences were found by and large:
http://www.antiwrap.com/?750 Hum Reprod. 1994 Jun;9(6):1097-101 Psychological follow-up of children born after in-vitro fertilization. Raoul-Duval A, Bertrand-Servais M, Letur-Konirsch H, Frydman R. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hopital Antoine-Beclere, Clamart, France. We have studied from birth up to the 3rd year the psychological attitude of 33 in-vitro fertilization (IVF) children compared to two other groups: children born after ovarian stimulation without IVF (n = 33) and children conceived naturally (n = 33) during the same period. Fourteen children, born by oocyte donation, were also studied by the same methodology. In the IVF group, we found some feeding difficulties and sleep disorders in the infants at 9 months and some signs of depression in mothers. All these symptoms disappeared afterwards. The development of all the children is satisfactory and the relationship with their mother is excellent. In this preliminary study, we conclude that the method of assisted reproduction has no bad influence on the psychomotor development of these children. On 10/14/05, Matthew Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Her argument is interesting. I don't agree with the whole premise, because > I believe adoption is a noble act, but some of her ideas raise questions > when put into perspective of valuing a human life. > > I have often wondered about the psychological effect of an "unnatural > childbirth" upon the child. Does a child who knows that he/she was born in > a "test tube", via a surrogate mother, using a sperm donor, or some other > means beside natural conception by male-female copulation have any problems > with this? > > I recently read some article about some advancement in science whereby a > male could possibly carry a child to term. I ask myself: "Do I want to be > that child?" I can't imagine the kinds of psychological damage that could > happen to one of the first children born that way. > > I heard an interesting statement recently - and let me first say, no offense > is intended, Ray, this is purely a philosophical question - that adopting > Asian children is the "trendy" thing to do. I wonder about that myself - > why go to Asia? Are there no children here in the US that need adopting? Is > it because Asian children are smarter than other children? Why an Asian > child as opposed to say, African-American? I'm under the impression > (meaning I think it is true but don't know the fact) that there is a large > number of African American children in the US that could stand to be > adopted. > > > Ok, I'm done. > > Matthew Small > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:07 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Adoption (and other means) are cheating > > Just reading your headline, I agreed. > > Adoption is cheating. > > The woman gets to skip the bloating, the nausia and the pain, and the > man gets to skip pretending he cares. > > =) > > Jerry Johnson > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:177070 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
