Don’t have to be Affluent to get a Surrogate
In the United States there are many families who can’t have children of their own. When most people have this problem there are a few different ways, out there that you can go about trying to get a child. One of the most popular ways is to use a surrogate mother. This is where you use donor sperm from your husband or a sperm bank to put inside a woman of your choice to bare your child for nine months. Not all Families have to be affluent to get surrogate mothers.
Many issues come up when you’re talking about what kinds of families get surrogate mothers. The first issue that comes up is the financial issue. In some cases surrogacy can be expensive but it depends on many factors. It depends on whether you’re going through a friend or an agency to find the surrogate. The next thing that comes up is weather the surrogate has health insurance or not. If not your make have to pay up to 30,000 dollars for health insurance for her witch might be rougher on families that are not affluent. Although that’s not a deal breaker they would just need to find another surrogate.
The next issue that affects families that are looking for surrogate mothers are there family type. There are many different kinds of families out there now in this world. There are families who have a mother and a father. Then there are those who only have a mother or a father which makes the trip for a surrogate harder sometimes. Then there are those families that are gay or lesbian and those pose even different problems.
The last issue and really the most important is what the family atmosphere is like. Some families have two happy parents and some families have issues. Some have parents who fight all the time. In some the fighting is caused by alcohol or even drugs. Even in some families you have spouses who are not faithful. This is all a part of the family atmosphere that you are trying to bring a baby into.
One percent of the baby’s born in the United States are from Assisted Reproductive Technologies. Of these one percent the qualifications is not that you are affluent. That’s not how you get to have a surrogate mother. You need to be a family that is surround by love and people who support them. Also they need to be families who have a good atmosphere. These are the real things that matter when families are being chosen weather or not they get a surrogate mother. It’s not all about having money.
Bibliography:
Jamie Williams. “Myths About Surrogates / Gestational Carriers.” www.Resolve.org. Tuesday July, 26 2011< http://www.resolve.org/national-infertility-awareness-week/myths-about-surrogates-gestational-carriers.html >.
Susannah Baruch. “Gene Watch.” www.Council for responsible genetic.Org. Tuesday July, 26 2011<http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/genewatch/GeneWatchPage.aspx?pageId=349&archive=yes>
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