New families, multiple stories: Conversational processes, origin stories, and donor-conceived children

IF 2 3区社会学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Family Relations Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2026-02-06 DOI:10.1111/fare.70092

Javiera Navarro-Marshall

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Abstract

Objective

How do families with donor-conceived children talk about their origins with them?

Background

Donor-conceived families are challenged to disclose origins to their children. Developmental psychology has scarce evidence about how these conversations unfold. These are discourse-dependent families; hence, how families talk about these stories is relevant for children's development.

Method

Naturalistic conversations-of-origin stories were analyzed with a structural and pragmatic coding scheme. Participants were 22 mothers, four fathers, 11 daughters, and eight sons (all children aged 3 to 8 years), belonging to 17 donor-conceived families from heterosexual, lesbian, and single-mother-by-choice structures. All lived in Chile at the moment of research and self-identified as of Latino ethnicity.

Results

Origin stories are complex; intimate; mother led; brief in extension; coconstructed, with asymmetrical contribution (parents scaffolding); and interactive.

Conclusion

These results can contribute to the design of empirically based strategies to support these family conversational processes.

Implications or recommendations

Further research needs to be done with bigger samples, and follow-up studies need to be held to assess how these origin stories contribute to identity processes of donor-conceived children.

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新家庭，多重故事：对话过程，起源故事，和捐赠者怀孕的孩子

目的：有捐胎儿童的家庭如何与他们谈论自己的出身？捐赠者受孕的家庭面临着向孩子透露来源的挑战。发展心理学很少有证据表明这些对话是如何展开的。这些是话语依赖的家庭；因此，家庭如何谈论这些故事与儿童的发展有关。方法采用结构化和语用化编码方法对自然对话故事进行分析。参与者包括22位母亲、4位父亲、11位女儿和8位儿子（年龄均在3至8岁之间），来自17个由异性恋、女同性恋和单亲母亲选择的捐赠受孕家庭。在进行研究时，所有人都住在智利，并自认为是拉丁裔。结果起源故事复杂；亲密的;母亲领导;引申的简要的；共构，贡献不对称（父母脚手架）；和互动。结论这些结果有助于设计基于经验的策略来支持这些家庭会话过程。启示或建议需要对更大的样本进行进一步的研究，并需要进行后续研究，以评估这些起源故事如何有助于供体受孕儿童的身份识别过程。

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Family Relations Multiple-

CiteScore

3.40

自引率

13.60%

发文量

164

期刊介绍： A premier, applied journal of family studies, Family Relations is mandatory reading for family scholars and all professionals who work with families, including: family practitioners, educators, marriage and family therapists, researchers, and social policy specialists. The journal"s content emphasizes family research with implications for intervention, education, and public policy, always publishing original, innovative and interdisciplinary works with specific recommendations for practice.