Sociodemographic characteristics and attitudes towards motherhood among single women compared with cohabiting women treated with donor semen: a Danish multicenter study
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Sociodemographic characteristics and attitudes towards motherhood among single women compared with cohabiting women treated with donor semen : a Danish multicenter study. / Salomon, Maria; Sylvest, Randi; Hansson, Helena; Andersen, Anders Nyboe; Schmidt, Lone.
I: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, Bind 94, Nr. 5, 2015, s. 473-481.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Sociodemographic characteristics and attitudes towards motherhood among single women compared with cohabiting women treated with donor semen
T2 - a Danish multicenter study
AU - Salomon, Maria
AU - Sylvest, Randi
AU - Hansson, Helena
AU - Andersen, Anders Nyboe
AU - Schmidt, Lone
N1 - © 2015 Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - OBJECTIVE: To examine sociodemographic characteristics, family backgrounds, reproductive histories, and attitudes towards motherhood in single vs. cohabiting women seeking treatment with donor semen.DESIGN: Baseline data collection in a multicenter cohort study.SETTING: All nine public fertility clinics in Denmark.SAMPLE: In total n = 311 childless women initiating assisted reproduction using donor semen.METHODS: Self-reported questionnaire responses from n = 184 single women seeking treatment by using donor semen were compared with responses from n = 127 cohabiting women.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Sociodemographic characteristics, family backgrounds, reproductive histories, attitudes towards motherhood.RESULTS: Single women were 3.5 years older on average when initiating treatment compared with cohabiting women. No significant differences were found regarding sociodemographic characteristics, previous long-term relationships, previous pregnancies, or attitudes towards motherhood between single women and cohabiting women. The vast majority of single women wanted to achieve parenthood with a partner, 85.8% wished to have a partner in the future, and approximately half of them preferred for a partner to take parental responsibilities.CONCLUSIONS: In this study single women seeking treatment with donor semen in the public health system did not differ from cohabiting women, except that they were older. To be a single mother by choice is not their preferred way of parenthood, but a solution they needed to accept.
AB - OBJECTIVE: To examine sociodemographic characteristics, family backgrounds, reproductive histories, and attitudes towards motherhood in single vs. cohabiting women seeking treatment with donor semen.DESIGN: Baseline data collection in a multicenter cohort study.SETTING: All nine public fertility clinics in Denmark.SAMPLE: In total n = 311 childless women initiating assisted reproduction using donor semen.METHODS: Self-reported questionnaire responses from n = 184 single women seeking treatment by using donor semen were compared with responses from n = 127 cohabiting women.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Sociodemographic characteristics, family backgrounds, reproductive histories, attitudes towards motherhood.RESULTS: Single women were 3.5 years older on average when initiating treatment compared with cohabiting women. No significant differences were found regarding sociodemographic characteristics, previous long-term relationships, previous pregnancies, or attitudes towards motherhood between single women and cohabiting women. The vast majority of single women wanted to achieve parenthood with a partner, 85.8% wished to have a partner in the future, and approximately half of them preferred for a partner to take parental responsibilities.CONCLUSIONS: In this study single women seeking treatment with donor semen in the public health system did not differ from cohabiting women, except that they were older. To be a single mother by choice is not their preferred way of parenthood, but a solution they needed to accept.
KW - Adult
KW - Age Factors
KW - Attitude
KW - Cohort Studies
KW - Denmark
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous
KW - Marital Status
KW - Mothers
KW - Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
KW - Residence Characteristics
KW - Single Person
KW - Socioeconomic Factors
U2 - 10.1111/aogs.12619
DO - 10.1111/aogs.12619
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25847078
VL - 94
SP - 473
EP - 481
JO - Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
JF - Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
SN - 0001-6349
IS - 5
ER -
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