Table II.
Disclosure to the child among parents following OD and SD.
| Total, n = 215 (%) | OD parents |
SD parents |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women, n = 55 (%) | Men, n = 48 (%) | Women, n = 59 (%) | Men, n = 53 (%) | ||
| Have already told | 35 (16) | 10 (18) | 6 (13) | 10 (17) | 9 (17) |
| 0–2 years | 15 (43) | 6 (60) | 4 (67) | 4 (40) | 1 (11) |
| 2–4 years | 20 (57) | 4 (40) | 2 (33) | 6 (60) | 8 (89) |
| Plan to tell | 167 (78) | 41 (75) | 37 (77) | 47 (80) | 42 (79) |
| 2–4 years | 28 (17) | 4 (10) | 7 (19) | 11 (24) | 6 (14) |
| 4–6 years | 35 (21) | 9 (22) | 7 (19) | 9 (19) | 10 (24) |
| 6–10 years | 10 (6) | 1 (2) | 4 (11) | 2 (4) | 3 (7) |
| 10–16 years | 8 (5) | 2 (5) | 2 (5) | 1 (2) | 3 (7) |
| 16–20 years | 2 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (5) |
| When the child asks | 28 (17) | 13 (32) | 3 (8) | 8 (17) | 4 (10) |
| Do not know/when the child understands | 56 (33) | 12 (29) | 14 (38) | 16 (34) | 14 (33) |
| Do not intend to tell | 5 (2) | 1 (2) | 1 (2) | 2 (3) | 1 (2) |
| Do not know | 8 (4) | 3 (5) | 4 (8) | 0 | 1 (2) |