Publicaties

2023

• Piek, S. R., Pennings, G., & Provoost, V. (2023). Age-based restrictions on reproductive care: discerning the arbitrary from the necessary. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 1-16.
• Verghote, K., Neeser, N., Pennings, G., Elger, B., & Provoost, V. (2023). “It was not an accident”: Women’s experiences of renewing motherhood at 40+. Journal of Women & Aging, 1-16.
• Verghote, K., Satalkar-Götz, P., Pennings, G., & Provoost, V. (2023). An invisible caregiver for visibly older parents: Experiences of (young) adults shared as comments to newspaper articles on advanced age parenthood. Plos one, 18(11), e0295018.

2022

• Coveney, C., Hudson, N., Lafuente-Funes, S., Jacxsens, L., & Provoost, V. (2022). From scarcity to sisterhood: The framing of egg donation on fertility clinic websites in the UK, Belgium and Spain. Social Science & Medicine, 296, 114785.

2020

• Stuyver, I.*, Somers, S.*, Provoost, V., Wierckx, K., Verstraelen, H., Wyverkens, E., Van Glabeke, L., T’Sjoen, G., Buysse, A., Pennings, G., & De Sutter, P. (2020). Ten years of fertility treatment experience and reproductive options in transgender men. International Journal of Transgender Health, 22(3), 294-303.* Beide auteurs leverden een gelijkwaardige bijdrage.
• Provoost, V. (2020). Interdisciplinary Collaborative Auditing as a Method to Facilitate Teamwork/Teams in Empirical Ethics Projects The American Journal of Bioethics. Empirical Bioethics, 11(1), 14-16.
• Somers, S., Provoost, V., Ravelingien, A., Buysse, A., Pennings, G., & De Sutter, P. (2020). The last vial. What it means to (aspiring) parents to use the same sperm donor for siblings. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology, 41(1), 62-68.

• Kerckhof, M., Van Parys, H., Pennings, G., De Sutter, P., Buysse, A., & Provoost, V. (2019). Donor insemination disclosure in social networks: heterosexual couples’ experiences.  Culture, Health & Sexuality, 22(3), 292-306.

2018

• Somers, S., Van Parys, H., Provoost, V., Buysse, A., Pennings, G., & De Sutter, P. (2018). Gezinsvorming en beslissingen over donorinseminatie bij lesbische koppels. Gunaïkeia, 23(4), 7-11.

2017

• Van Parys, H., Provoost, V., De Sutter, P., Pennings, G., & Buysse, A. (2017). Multi family member interview studies: a focus on data analysis. Journal of Family Therapy, 39(3), 386-401.
• Somers, S., Van Parys, H., Provoost, V., Buysse, A., Pennings, G., & De Sutter, P. (2017). How to create a family? Decision making in lesbian couples using donor sperm. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 11, 13-18.
• Provoost, V., Bernaerdt, J., Van Parys, H., Buysse, A., De Sutter, P., & Pennings, G. (2017). ‘No daddy’, ‘A kind of daddy’: words used by donor conceived children and (aspiring) parents to refer to the sperm donor. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 20(4), 381-396.

2016

• Van Parys, H., Provoost, V., Zeiler, K., De Sutter, P., Pennings, G., & Buysse, A. (2016). Constructing and enacting kinship in sister-to-sister egg donation families: a multi family member interview study. Sociology of Health & Illness, 39(6), 847-862.
• Van Parys, H., Provoost, V., Wyverkens, E., De Sutter, P., Pennings, G., & Buysse, A. (2016). Family communication about the donor conception: a multi-perspective qualitative study with lesbian parents and their children. Qualitative Health Research, 26(14), 1998-2008.
• Wyverkens, E., Van Parys, H., Provoost, V., Pennings, G., De Sutter, P., & Buysse, A. (2016). Sister-to-sister oocyte donation: couples’ experiences with regard to genetic ties. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 34(3), 314-323.
• Van Parys, H., Wyverkens, E., Provoost, V., De Sutter, P., Pennings, G., & Buysse, A. (2016). Family communication about donor conception: a qualitative study with lesbian parents. Family Process, 55(1), 139-154.

2015

• WYverkens, E. & Buysse, A. (2015). Een derde in het gezin? Onderzoek naar gezinsvorming via donorconceptie. Systeemtherapie, 27(4), 208-219.
• Wyverkens, E., Provoost, V., Ravelingien, A., De Sutter, P., Pennings, G., & Buysse, A. (2015). The meaning of the sperm donor for heterosexual couples: confirming the position of the father. Family Process, 56(1), 203-216.
• Raes, I., Van Parys, H., Provoost, V., Buysse, A., De Sutter, P., & Pennings, G. (2015). Two mothers and a donor: Exploration of children’s family concepts in lesbian households. Facts, Views and Vision in ObGyn, 7(2), 83-90.
• Ravelingien, A., Provoost, V., Wyverkens, E., Buysse, A., De Sutter, P., & Pennings, G. (2015). Recipients’ views on payment of sperm donors. Reproductive Biomedicine Online, 31(2), 225-231.
• Raes, I., Ravelingien, A., & Pennings, G. (2015). Donor conception disclosure: directive or non-directive counselling? Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 13(3), 369-379.

• Wyverkens, E., Van Parys, H., & Buysse, A. (2015). Experiences of family relationships among donor-conceived families: A meta-ethnography. Qualitative Health Research, 25(9), 1223-1240.

• Ravelingien, A., Provoost, V., & Pennings, G. (2015). Open-identity sperm donation: How does offering donor-identifying information relate to donor-conceived offspring’s wishes and needs? Bioethical Inquiry, 12(3), 503-509.

2014

• Raes, I., Ravelingien, A., & Pennings, G. (2014). Informatieverwerving vanuit het perspectief van de gametendonor: mogen sperma- en eiceldonoren informatie ontvangen over hun donorkinderen? Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 70(1), 3-10.
• Wyverkens, E., Provoost, V., Ravelingien, A., De Sutter, P., Pennings, G., & Buysse, A. (2014). Beyond sperm cells. A qualitative study on constructed meanings of the sperm donor in lesbian families. Human Reproduction, 29(6), 1248-1254.
• Raes, I., Van Parys, H., Provoost, V., Buysse, A., De Sutter, P., & Pennings, G. (2014). Parental (in)equality and the genetic link in lesbian families. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 32(5), 457-468.
• Ravelingien, A., Provoost, P., Wyverkens, E., Buysse, A., De Sutter, P., & Pennings, G. (2014). Lesbian couples’ views about and experiences of not being able to choose their sperm donor. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 17(5), 592-606.

2013

• Raes, I., Ravelingien, A., & Pennings, G. (2013). The right of the donor to information about children conceived from his or her gametes. Human Reproduction, 28(3), 560-565.
• Ravelingien, A., & Pennings, G. (2013). The right to know your genetic parents: from open-identity gamete donation to routine paternity testing. American Journal of Bioethics, 13(5), 33-41.
• Ravelingien, A., & Pennings, G. (2013). On the right to know and the use of double standards: Response to open peer commentaries on ‘The right to know your genetic parents: from open-identity gamete donation to routine paternity testing’. American Journal of Bioethics, 13(5), W6-8.
• Ravelingien, A., Provoost, V., & Pennings, G. (2013) Donor-conceived children looking for their sperm donor: what do they want to know? Facts, Views and Vision in ObGyn, 5(4), 254-261.