Child Development Chan, R.W., Raboy, B. And Pa

During the past few decades, there has been an increase in types of American family structure and an increase in the overall number of non-traditional families. Along with that change in family structure, there has come criticism asserting that nontraditional families are not as healthy for children and that children in nontraditional families differ from children in traditional families in terms of psychological health and other issues.

In particular, there has been focus on the children of unmarried single women, and on the children of lesbian or gay parents. More recently, there has been concern about the increase in children born from artificial, or donor, insemination. However, the concern has not generally been borne out by the research.

One problem in the research to date has been that issues of genetic relatedness and family structure have been confounded in the design, leading to unclear results. This study is designed to separate issues of genetic relatedness or "ownness" and issues of family functioning as related to family structure.

All families were selected from among clients of The Sperm Bank of California. The sample was drawn from the client among the TSBC files who had conceived and given birth to

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Approximate Word count = 1133
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)