Quality of infertility care in poor-resource areas and the introduction of new reproductive technologies

F Van Balen, T Gerrits - Human Reproduction, 2001 - academic.oup.com
The quality of infertility care is dependent upon adequate material resources and the
appropriate use of it. In addition, a mutual understanding between physicians and patients is …

[HTML][HTML] The social and cultural consequences of being childless in poor-resource areas

F Van Balen, HMW Bos - Facts, views & vision in ObGyn, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction approximately 70-80 million couples world wide are currently infertile (bos et al.,
1995; boivin et al., 2007) and it can be estimated that tens of millions of couples are primary …

Lesbian families and family functioning: An overview

HMW Bos, F Van Balen, DC van den Boom - Patient Education and …, 2005 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: In the last 30 years a growing body of studies on lesbian parents and the
development of children has been published. METHODS: Four computerized databases were …

ONE Introduction Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences Frank van Balen and Marcia C. Inhorn

F Van Balen - Infertility around the globe: New thinking on …, 2002 - books.google.com
Frank van Balen, shifts our attention to Western psychological discourses and especially the
enduring " psychologization" of infertility over the past fifty years. Van Balen … Thus van Balen

[BOOK][B] Infertility around the globe: New thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies

MC Inhorn, F Van Balen - 2002 - books.google.com
" Extremely well-written, innovative, and timely, Infertility Around the Globe is a definitive
work. Together, the authors use infertility as the lens to examine numerous compelling social …

Child adjustment and parenting in planned lesbian‐parent families

HMW Bos, F Van Balen… - American journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
One hundred planned lesbian‐parent families (ie, two‐mother families in which the child was
born to the lesbian relationship) were compared with 100 heterosexual‐parent families on …

National differences in incidence of acute mastoiditis: relationship to prescribing patterns of antibiotics for acute otitis media?

…, AGM Schilder, FAM VAN BALEN… - The Pediatric …, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Background. Operating on the principle that most acute otitis media (AOM) episodes resolve
without antibiotics, doctors in the Netherlands usually manage AOM in children with initial …

Experience of parenthood, couple relationship, social support, and child‐rearing goals in planned lesbian mother families

HMW Bos, F Van Balen… - Journal of Child …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Background: The phenomenon of planned lesbian families (ie, two‐mother families in which
the child was born to the lesbian relationship) is relatively new and very little research has …

Primary care based randomised, double blind trial of amoxicillin versus placebo for acute otitis media in children aged under 2 years

RAMJ Damoiseaux, FAM van Balen, AW Hoes… - Bmj, 2000 - bmj.com
Objective: To determine the effect of antibiotic treatment for acute otitis media in children
between 6 months and 2 years of age. Design: Practice based, double blind, randomised, …

Children in planned lesbian families: Stigmatisation, psychological adjustment and protective factors

HMW Bos, F Van Balen - Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The study assessed the extent to which children between eight and 12 years old in planned
lesbian families in the Netherlands experience stigmatization, as well as the influence of …