Table IV.
Expectations of donation.
| Sperm bank donors | Online donors | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | p | |
| Preferred type of donation | |||
| Anonymous | 25 (14.9) | 18 (25.7) | .001a |
| Identity release | 100 (58.5) | 17 (24.3) | |
| Known | 18 (10.7) | 27 (38.6) | |
| Co-parent | 7 (4.2) | 4 (5.7) | |
| Other/don’t know | 18 (10.7) | 4 (5.7) | |
| Not specified | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| Ideally, would you like to place restrictions on who could use your donated sperm?* | |||
| Yes | 29 (17.3) | 44 (62.9) | <.001b |
| No | 118 (70.2) | 14 (20) | |
| Not sure | 19 (11.3) | 12 (17) | |
| Not specified | 2 (1.2) | 0 (0) | |
| Should there be a limit on the number of children that can be born from the sperm of any one donor? | |||
| Yes | 69 (41.3) | 32 (45,7) | ns |
| No | 61 (36.5) | 26 (37.1) | |
| Not sure | 37 (22.2) | 12 (17.1) | |
| Future contact with child | |||
| Yes | 61 (36.7) | 34 (48.6) | ns |
| No | 41 (24.7) | 18 (25.7) | |
| Not sure | 64 (38.6) | 18 (25.7) | |
| View of relationship with child | |||
| No relationship | 15 (8.9) | 14 (20.0) | .031a |
| A ‘genetic’ relationship only | 59 (35.1) | 13 (18.6) | |
| Like any other child I know | 12 (7.1) | 3 (4.3) | |
| Like a friend’s child | 15 (8.9) | 10 (14.3) | |
| Like a niece or nephew | 12 (7.1) | 9 (12.9) | |
| A special relationship | 38 (22.6) | 13 (18.6) | |
| Like my own child | 15 (8.9) | 7 (10) | |
| Not specified | 2 (1.2) | 1 (1.4) | |
| Disclosure about donor conception | |||
| Yes | 71 (42.3) | 37 (52.9) | ns |
| No | 4 (2.4) | 3 (4.3) | |
| Not sure | 9 (5.4) | 6 (8.6) | |
| It’s up to parents | 83 (49.4) | 24 (34.3) | |
| Missing | 1 (.6) | 0 (0) | |
| Disclosure about donor identity | .015b | ||
| Yes | 61 (36.3) | 26 (37.1) | |
| No | 12 (7.1) | 15 (21.4) | |
| Not sure | 22 (13.1) | 7 (10) | |
| It’s up to parents | 70 (41.7) | 22 (31.4) | |
| Missing | 3 (1.8) | 0 (0) | |
*Question asked to online donors was ‘Do you have any restrictions about who you would donate your sperm to?’
aFisher’s Exact test
bChi-Square test