Kate Ellis-Davies: New Study Explores Parent–Infant Attachment in ART Families Across Europe
Kate Ellis-Davies, Senior Lecturer at Swansea University, shared a post on LinkedIn about a paper by Loes van Rijn – van Gelderen et al. published in Taylor and Francis:
“Great start to Monday for our new paper out on parent-infant attachment formation in families formed with assisted reproduction technologies across Europe, including heterosexual parents, lesbian mothers, and gay fathers.
Wonderful international and interdisciplinary collaboration on this longitudinal and mixed methods project
With Loes van Rijn – van Gelderen (PhD) leading the charge brilliantly.”
Title: Attachment in families created through assisted reproductive techniques: results from the first study using the Strange Situation Procedure in same-sex and different-sex parent families
Authors: Loes Van Rijn – van Gelderen, Kate Ellis-Davies, Olivier Vecho, Bérengère Rubio, Nicola Carone, Costanzo Frau, Corrado Schiavetto, Jana Runze, Terrence D. Jorgensen, Henny M.W. Bos, Michael E. Lamb

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