Table 1. Sociodemographic Information by Family Type.
| Natural conception | Surrogacy | Egg donation | Donor insemination | F | p | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Age of mother (years) | 48.27 | 2.73 | 51.60 | 4.85 | 53.66 | 5.91 | 48.93 | 3.45 | 12.42 | .000 |
| Age of children (months) | 169.16 | 4.23 | 167.17 | 5.84 | 168.29 | 5.73 | 167.37 | 5.04 | 1.32 | ns |
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | χ2 | p | |||||
| Child’s gender | 1.69 | ns | ||||||||
| Boy | 25 (46.3) | 12 (42.9) | 15 (55.6) | 18 (56.3) | ||||||
| Girl | 29 (53.7) | 16 (57.1) | 12 (44.4) | 14 (43.8) | ||||||
| Number of siblings | 20.40 | .002 | ||||||||
| 0 | 4 (7.4) | 12 (42.9) | 13 (48.1) | 11 (34.4) | ||||||
| 1 | 41 (75.9) | 13 (46.4) | 11 (40.7) | 17 (53.1) | ||||||
| 2+ | 9 (16.7) | 3 (10.7) | 3 (11.1) | 4 (12.5) | ||||||
| Marital Status | 6.42 | .09 | ||||||||
| Married | 48 (88.9) | 21 (75) | 25 (92.6) | 22 (73.3) | ||||||
| Separated/divorced | 6 (11.1) | 7 (25.0) | 2 (7.4) | 8 (26.7) | ||||||
| Ethnic group: | 2.90 | ns | ||||||||
| White | 47 (97.9) | 25 (100) | 23 (92.0) | 26 (96.3) | ||||||
| Non-white | 1 (2.1) | 0 (0) | 2 (8) | 1 (3.7) | ||||||
| Mothers’ educational level | 15.16 | .002 | ||||||||
| No university degree | 19 (35.2) | 22 (78.6) | 16 (59.3) | 19 (59.4) | ||||||
| University degree | 35 (64.8) | 6 (21.4) | 11 (40.7) | 13 (40.6) | ||||||