Sperm donor conception and disclosure to children: a 10-year retrospective follow-up study of parental attitudes in one French center for the study and preservation of eggs and sperm (CECOS).

Objective: To evaluate the percentage of parents in one French center for the study and preservation of eggs and sperm who disclose their use of donated spermatozoa to their children.

Design: A questionnaire survey of couples who had a child using donated spermatozoa.

Setting: University hospital laboratory.

[Do couples who procreate through sperm donation inform their children?].

Objectives: An amendment to the French bioethics law allowing children conceived by gamete donation to know the identity of donors is proposed, while no study can assess the proportion of parents in France that disclose the nature of conception to their donor conceived offspring. The aim of our study was to know whether couples who wish to inform their offspring actually did it.

Patients And Methods: We sent a questionnaire to parents who had expressed an intention to disclose the nature of conception to their future offspring conceived by sperm donation.