Associations between maternal older age, family environment and parent and child wellbeing in families using assisted reproductive techniques to conceive

J. Boivin, Frances Rice, Dale Hay, Gordon Harold, Allyson Lewis, Marianne M.B. van den Bree and Anita Thapar

Social Science & Medicine, 2009, vol. 68, issue 11, 1948-1955

Abstract: Maternal age effects on parenting and family outcomes are of increasing interest because of the demographic shift toward older maternal age at first birth. Maternal age is also of interest because of the greater use of assisted reproductive techniques (ART) to bypass age-related infertility in couples trying to conceive late in the reproductive life cycle of the woman. The aim of the present study was to investigate maternal age effects associated with delayed parenting by comparing families of mothers who gave birth at a younger ( 38 years) age and to ascertain whether associations were linear associations by comparing these groups to women who had conceived in between these ages (i.e., >31 and

Keywords: In; vitro; fertilisation; (IVF); Middle; childhood; Age; Assisted; conception; Older; mother; Family; environment; Gamete; donation; UK; Delayed; parenting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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