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Surrogate Mothers

Journal of Family Nursing, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the experiences of Taiwanese aboriginal grandmothers when raising their grandchildren. Adopting a phenomenological approach, interviews were conducted with 15 Taiwanese aboriginal grandmothers who served as primary caregiver to a grandchild or grandchildren.
Hayter, Mark, Chang, Yu-Ting
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Satisfaction with Surrogate Mothering

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2001
Abstract Seventeen surrogate mothers were interviewed regarding their experiences and satisfaction with the process for this study. All had given birth to one or more children, and five had been a surrogate morethan once. All described their relationshipswith thecouple asbeing the key factor in their satisfaction. Other relationships identified as very
Melinda M. Hohman, Christine B. Hagan
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Problems in Commercialized Surrogate Mothering

Women & Health, 1988
Commercialized surrogate mothering is an unworkable arrangement for helping infertile couples to have children. The arrangement requires a woman to undergo artificial insemination, to sustain a pregnancy and to relinquish the child upon birth to the genetic father.
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Surrogate Mothers: Whose Baby Is It?

American Journal of Law & Medicine, 1984
AbstractAdvances in medical technology offer infertile couples who wish to raise children alternatives to adoption. The increasing number of surrogate mother contracts creates a myriad of legal issues surrounding the rights of the natural mother, the natural father and die child that is produced.
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On the Vicissitudes of Early Primary Surrogate Mothering II: Loss of the Surrogate Mother and Arrest of Mourning

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2000
Among the catastrophic events experienced by infants and young children, one of the most frequent is the loss of an early primary surrogate mother (EPSM). Usually permanent, the loss is often followed by the advent of a new, “replacement” caregiver. One aspect of the emotional environment is unique to this kind of caregiving situation: that parents are
H T, Hardin, D H, Hardin
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So not mothers: responsibility for surrogate orphans

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2018
The law ordinarily recognises the woman who gives birth as the mother of a child, but in certain jurisdictions, it will recognise the commissioning couple as the legal parents of a child born to a commercial surrogate. Some commissioning parents have, however, effectively abandoned the children they commission, and in such cases, commercial surrogates ...
Jennifer A, Parks, Timothy F, Murphy
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The Prospect of Surrogate Mothering: Clinical Concerns

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1987
There have been, in the last decade, approximately 500 surrogate births in the United States and the demand is increasing. The average cost is $25,000 and as there is no regulatory legislation in place, each arrangement is covered by a private legal contract.
J H, Steadman, G T, McCloskey
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Motivation of surrogate mothers: initial findings

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1983
The author presents demographic and motivational data on 125 women who applied to be surrogate mothers. Several complementary motivations were noted: the desires for money, to be pregnant, to "give" a baby, and to resolve internal psychological conflicts.
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Surrogate Mother or Surrogate Wife?

Ethics & Medics, 1988
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THE MORALITY OF SURROGATE MOTHERING

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1989
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