However, the emotional considerations involved in the use of donor gametes are complex. Emotional stress may develop within the marriage when one of the partners is not biologically connected to the child, even though the procedure was undertaken with full knowledge and consent. In a very real (biological-genetic) sense, one of the partners has had a child together with someone other than their spouse, and that facet can foster an emotional interest in the donor (even if anonymous). There is also
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