Story: Infertility and childlessness

More links and websites

• Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology

  An independent advisory committee that formulates advice and guidelines to regulate assisted human reproduction.

• Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology

  The committee considers applications for assisted reproductive procedures or human reproductive research.

• Fertility Associates

  The website of the largest fertility services provider in New Zealand.

• Fertility New Zealand

  The website of a charitable trust that supports, advocates for and provides information to people who are affected by infertility.

• Natural Fertility

  Natural Fertility New Zealand Incorporated is an organisation that teaches natural fertility management (conception and contraception).

More suggestions and sources

• Boddington, Bill and Robert Didham. ‘Increases in childlessness in New Zealand.’ Journal of Population Research 26 (2009): 131–151.

• Cameron, Jan. Why have children? A New Zealand case study. Christchurch: University of Canterbury Press, 1990.

• Coney, Sandra and Anne Else. Protecting our future: the case for greater regulation of assisted reproductive technology: a discussion document. Auckland: Women’s Health Action Trust, 1999.

• Daniels, Ken. Building a family with the assistance of donor insemination. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2004.

• Glover, Marewa and Benedicta Rousseau. ‘“Your child is your whakapapa”: Māori considerations of assisted human reproduction and relatedness.’ Sites: a Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies 4, no. 20 (2007): 117–136.

• Goedeke, Sonja and Ken R. Daniels. 'Embryo donation or embryo adoption? Practice and policy in the New Zealand context'. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 31 (2017): 1–19. 

• New Zealand Law Society (ed.) International adoption and surrogacy: family formation in the 21st century. New Zealand: NZLS CLE Ltd, 2014. 

• Reynolds, Paul and Cherryl Smith (eds). The gift of children: Māori and infertility. Wellington: Huia Publishers, 2012. 

• Shaw, Rhonda. ‘Rethinking reproductive gifts as body projects.’ Sociology 42, no. 1 (2008): 117–136.

• Wilson, Debra. ‘Surrogacy in New Zealand.’ New Zealand Law Journal 401 (2016): 401–409.