Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 1 , Pages 33-43 , July 2008

Contact among families who share the same sperm donor

  • Joanna E. Scheib, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California
    • The Sperm Bank of California, Berkeley, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Joanna E. Scheib, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 (FAX: 530-752-2087).
    • ,
  • Alice Ruby, M.P.H., M.P.P.M.

      Affiliations

    • The Sperm Bank of California, Berkeley, California

Received 18 December 2006 ,Revised 29 April 2007 ,Accepted 29 April 2007.

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 Presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Montreal, Canada, October 15–19, 2005.

PII: S0015-0282(07)01230-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.05.058

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 1 , Pages 33-43 , July 2008

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