Infographics

Infographic from the DRIFTS project. This project focuses on the experiences of people born thanks to sperm donation, who are concerned about insemination fraud and the use of a single donor to conceive multiple children.

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To quote this: DRIFTS Research Team (2025). Uncovering the fraud: a sense of “tainted” identity. Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from the DRIFTS project. This project focuses on the experiences of people born thanks to sperm donation, who are concerned about insemination fraud and the use of a single donor to conceive multiple children.

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To quote this: DRIFTS Research Team (2025). Uncovering the fraud: identity realignment. Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from the DRIFTS project. This project focuses on the experiences of people born thanks to sperm donation, who are concerned about insemination fraud and the use of a single donor to conceive multiple children.

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To quote this: DRIFTS Research Team (2025). Uncovering the fraud: the different paths. Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from the DRIFTS project. This project focuses on the experiences of people born thanks to sperm donation, who are concerned about insemination fraud and the use of a single donor to conceive multiple children.

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To quote this: DRIFTS Research Team (2025). Is insemination fraud against the law? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from the DRIFTS project. This project focuses on the experiences of people born thanks to sperm donation, who are concerned about insemination fraud and the use of a single donor to conceive multiple children.

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To quote this: DRIFTS Research Team (2025). Insemination fraud: a lesser known drift. Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from a study on adoption by special consent in the context of surrogacy by Kévin Lavoie, Isabel Côté and Sophie Doucet.

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To quote this: Équipe de recherche COMMUNICATION (2024). Comment est perçue l’adoption par consentement spécial par les personnes impliquées dans une entente de grossesse pour autrui ? Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la procréation pour autrui et les liens familiaux, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

To find out more: Lavoie, K., Côté, I., & Doucet, S. (2024). « Pourquoi devrais-je adopter mon propre enfant? » Le recours à l’adoption par consentement spécial pour établir la filiation d’un enfant né d’une grossesse pour autrui au Québec. Enfances, Familles, Générations, (45).

Infographic from the STORIES project. This study focuses on how donor conceived teenagers perceive their donor.

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To quote this: DRIFTS Research Team (2024). How do donor conceived teenagers perceive their donor? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from the Contact project. This study focuses on the experience of gametes donors who were contacted by someone born from their donation.

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To quote this: CONTACT Research Team (2024). How do contacts between gamete donors and donor-conceived people unfold? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from the Contact project. This study focuses on the experience of gametes donors who were contacted by someone born from their donation.

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To quote this: CONTACT Research Team (2024). How do gamete donors react when they are contacted by someone born from their donation? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from My Mother’s Surrogacy project. This study focuses on the perceptions and experiences of the children of surrogates.

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To quote this: MY MOTHER’S SURROGACY Research Team (2024). What is the relationship between the children of surrogates and the intended parents? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from My Mother’s Surrogacy project. This study focuses on the perceptions and experiences of the children of surrogates.

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To quote this: MY MOTHER’S SURROGACY Research Team (2024). How do children of surrogates perceive the baby born of their mother’s surrogacy? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from My Mother’s Surrogacy project. This study focuses on the perceptions and experiences of the children of surrogates.

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To quote this: MY MOTHER’S SURROGACY Research Team (2024). How do the children of surrogates experience the process of their mother handing over the baby to the intended parents? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from My Mother’s Surrogacy project. This study focuses on the perceptions and experiences of the children of surrogates.

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To quote this: MY MOTHER’S SURROGACY Research Team (2024). How do the children of surrogates experience the surrogacy of their mother? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic from My Mother’s Surrogacy project. This study focuses on the perceptions and experiences of the children of surrogates.

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To quote this: MY MOTHER’S SURROGACY Research Team (2024). How do children of surrogates react when they are told about their mother’s surrogacy? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Article intended for the general public that summarizes the findings of an exploratory study on online sperm donation offers in Quebec. The study was published in The Journal of Men Studies (Lavoie, Côté, & de Montigny, 2018).

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To quote this: Lavoie, K., Côté, I., & de Montigny, F. (2018). Chéri.e, j’ai facebooké notre donneur : les réseaux socionumériques comme nouvelle filière d’accès à la procréation assistée par autrui.e. Bulletin de liaison du Partenariat de recherche Familles en mouvance, 16. Institut national de la recherche scientifique, 9-15.

Summary sheet of a qualitative study that began in 2010 with ten Quebecer lesboparental families founded with the help of a known sperm donor and whose children were born after the adoption of Bill 84.

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To quote this: Côté, I. & Lavoie, K. (2017). Les trajectoires des familles lesboparentales dont les enfants sont nés d’un donneur de sperme connu : comment évolue la relation du donneur aux enfants ? Summary sheet. Université du Québec en Outaouais, 1-8.

Summary sheet of a qualitative study that began in 2010 with ten Quebecer lesboparental families founded with the help of a known sperm donor and whose children were born after the adoption of Bill 84.

To view this summary sheet, click here [in French only].

To quote this: Côté, I., Trottier-Cyr, R.-P., & Lavoie, K. (2017). Récits d’enfants sur leur constellation familiale : les liens familiaux et relationnels au sein des familles lesboparentales avec donneur connu. Résultats d’une étude basée sur l’approche centrée sur l’enfant. Summary sheet. Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Summary sheet of a study aimed at delimiting the parental project of gay fathers whose children were born with the help of a surrogacy agreement.

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To quote this: Côté, I., Sallafranque-St-Louis, F., & Lavoie, K. (2015). Trajectoires parentales de couples gais ayant eu leurs enfants grâce à la gestation pour autrui. Résultats d’une étude québécoise. Summary sheet. Université du Québec en Outaouais, 1-7.

Summary sheet of the findings of an exploratory study on lesboparental families whose children were born with the help of a known sperm donor in Quebec.

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To quote this: Côté, I. & Lavoie, K. (2013). Deux mères, un donneur et des enfants. Une reconfiguration des rôles familiaux ? Summary sheet. Université du Québec en Outaouais, 1-4.

Infographic aimed at 2SLGBTQ+ people who are planning to use fertility services to conceive their child. It covers the general process of medically assisted reproduction (MAR).

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To quote this: ACCESS Research Team & Coalition des familles LGBT+ (2025). La procréation médicalement assistée (PMA) : à quoi m’attendre en tant que personne 2SLGBTQ+ ? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic aimed at 2SLGBTQ+ people who are planning to use fertility clinics to conceive their child. It covers the psychosocial consultation in fertility clinics.

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To quote this: ACCESS Research Team & Coalition des familles LGBT+ (2025). La rencontre psychosociale en clinique de fertilité : à quoi m’attendre en tant que personne 2SLGBTQ+ ? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Infographic outlining the barriers to accessing fertility services for lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, trans and queer women, as well as trans men and non-binary people. To start a family, these people often depend on fertility services (e.g. insemination with sperm donation, in vitro fertilization).

To view this infographic, click here [in French only].

To quote this: ACCESS Research Team & Coalition des familles LGBT+ (2024). Les barrières d’accès aux services de fertilité pour les femmes lesbiennes, bisexuelles et pansexuelles, et les personnes queer, trans et non-binaires – ce que disent les études. Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Summary sheet of findings from the partnership research project Savoirs sur l’inclusion et l’exclusion des personnes LGBTQ+ (Knowledge on the inclusion and exclusion of LGBTQ+ people).

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To quote this: Blais, M., Greenbaum, M., Côté, I., Philibert, M., & Chamberland, L. (2020). Portrait des familles LGBTQ+ au Québec en 2019-2020. Projet de recherche partenariale SAVIE-LGBTQ, Université du Québec à Montréal, & Coalition des familles LGBT+.

Collection of conferences from the symposium Dans l’ombre de la réforme du droit de la famille : les pluriparentalités et la recherche des origines. The symposium, co-organized by the research partnership Familles en mouvance and the Observatoire des réalités familiales du Québec, took place on May 31, 2024 at the Centre Urbanisation Culture et Société at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS).

The Observatoire des réalités familiales du Québec team wrote and designed this conference booklet. Among other things, it features the simplified texts of conferences given by Professor Isabel Côté, the Chairholder, and Professor Kévin Lavoie, an Associated Researcher at the Chair.

To view this conference booklet by the Observatoire des réalités familiales du Québec, click here [in French only].

To quote this: Observatoire des réalités familiales du Québec. (2025). Les pluriparentalités et la recherche des origines, dans l’ombre de la réforme du droit de la famille : carnet de colloque (31 mai 2024). In M. Chevrier (Ed.), Centre Urbanisation Culture Société, Institut national de la recherche scientifique.

Infographic from a study on the views of children of polyamorous parents by Milaine Alarie, Morag Bosom and Isabel Côté.

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To quote this: COMMUNICATION Research Team (2025). How do children see the romantic partners of their polyamorous parents? Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties, Université du Québec en Outaouais.

To find out more: Alarie, M., Bosom, M., & Côté, I. (2024). “It’s someone who means a lot to me, and who means even more to Mom”: Children’s views on the romantic partners of their polyamorous parents. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(12), 3525‑3546.

Summary sheet of the Réactions study, which aims to identify the factors that contribute to and harm the well-being of children, adolescents and their parents in the context of a pandemic.

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To quote this: Gervais, C., Côté, I., & Miljus, M. (2021). Comment soutenir la santé mentale des jeunes et de leurs parents après plus d’un an de pandémie ? Action parents, 42(2), pé28-30.

Article intended for the general public on the project L’enfant immigrant et sa famille : écouter pour mieux comprendre, directed by Christine Gervais. The project aims to better understand how recent immigrant children represent their family relationships and, more specifically, their father’s involvement with them, as well as the importance of the latter for their adaptation to immigration.

To view this article, click here [in French only].

To quote this: Gervais, C., Côté, I., Trottier-Cyr, R.-P., de Montigny, F., Tardif-Grenier, K., & Ndengeyingoma, A. (2019). Mon papa et moi… d’un pays à l’autre. L’impact, 9(1), 1-3.

Summary sheet on how children aged 4 to 13 represent friendship, and how they distinguish their friends from the other children in their environment, whether at the daycare center, at school or in their neighborhood.

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To quote this: Côté, I. (2018, décembre). Veux-tu être mon amie ? leDroit Famille, 1(2), 51-53.