Surrogate Child

Surrogate Child
Author: Andrew Neiderman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2012-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 145168262X

From Andrew Neiderman comes a haunting tale of a son's terrifying legacy.... Surrogate Child Fifteen-year-old Solomon Stern was the perfect teenager: an ideal student, an outstanding athlete, and a valued friend. But when Solomon ended his life with a hangman's noose, he shattered every dream that Joe and Martha Stern held dear. His legacy: guilt to a father who didn't know his own son...despair to a mother who loved him too well. The foster child was a second chance for the Sterns -- Jonathan, a boy of Solomon's age, intelligent and charming. But there were other similarities between Jonathan and the dead son. Disturbing similarities. And there was also something different about Jonathan...something chilling. Something deadly.

Modern Families

Modern Families
Author: Susan Golombok
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2015-03-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 110705558X

This book provides an expert view of research on parenting and child development in new family forms.

The Kangaroo Pouch

The Kangaroo Pouch
Author: Sarah Phillips Pellet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2006
Genre: Kangaroos
ISBN: 9780997394603

"Meet Oliver, a young kangaroo whose mother has decided to help another family to have a child. Go wtih him as he takes you through - step-by-step - the wonderful journey of surrogacy!"--Back cover.

Surrogate Motherhood

Surrogate Motherhood
Author: Rachel Cook
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2003-06-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847310370

This book is a multi-disciplinary collection of essays from leading researchers and practitioners,exploring legal, ethical, social, psychological and practical aspects of surrogate motherhood in Britain and abroad. It highlights the common themes that characterise debates across countries as well as exploring the many differences in policies and practices. Surrogacy raises questions for medical and welfare practitioners and dilemmas for policy makers as well as ethical issues of concern to society as a whole. The international perspective adopted by this book offers an opportunity for questions of law, policy and practice to be shared and debated across countries. The book links contemporary views from research and practice with broader social issues and bio-ethical debates. The book will be of interest to an international audience of academics and their students (in law, social policy, reproductive medicine, psychology and sociology), practitioners (including doctors, counsellors, midwives and welfare professionals) as well as those involved in policy-making and implementation.

A Surrogacy Book for Young Children

A Surrogacy Book for Young Children
Author: Crystal Falk
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781535559683

Grown in Another Garden introduces young children, ages 2 years old to 8 years old, to surrogacy. Follow the story of Mikey and his family as he learns about the unique way he was born into a loving family - through the kindness of a surrogate. Join with him discovers that "sometimes the sweetest and most beautiful creations are grown in another garden." Mikey's story helps to explain why some families choose surrogates to help grow their families and why surrogates choose to help other families that way.

Why I'm So Special

Why I'm So Special
Author: Carla Lewis-Long
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1468500074

"This book tackles a very difficult, complicated subject in a sweet, whimisical way. A lighthearted picture book on surrogacy."--Cover p. [4].

The Gift of Surrogacy

The Gift of Surrogacy
Author: Iré́né́ Celcer
Publisher: Graphite
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Infants
ISBN: 9780975581049

Hope and Will fall in love, get married, and try very hard to have a baby before their doctor tells them that they need a surrogate mother to carry their baby in her uterus.

Birthing a Mother

Birthing a Mother
Author: Elly Teman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2010-03-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520945859

Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global context, Teman traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a complicated transition to motherhood. Teman’s groundbreaking analysis reveals that as surrogates psychologically and emotionally disengage from the fetus they carry, they develop a profound and lasting bond with the intended mother.

Surrogate Motherhood

Surrogate Motherhood
Author: Helena Ragone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000313654

Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart is a compelling account written with analytical clarity and remarkable compassion. Helena Ragoné has given long overdue humanity and voice to the actual participants in the surrogate motherhood experience—a heretofore inaccessible population—and the results are fascinating. Anyone interested in fertility, parenting, reproduction, and kinship, or anyone interested in contemporary culture will want to read this book.

Full Surrogacy Now

Full Surrogacy Now
Author: Sophie Lewis
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786637308

Where pregnancy is concerned, let every pregnancy be for everyone. Let us overthrow, in short, the “family” The surrogacy industry is estimated to be worth over $1 billion a year, and many of its surrogates around the world work in terrible conditions—deception, wage-stealing and money skimming are rife; adequate medical care is horrifyingly absent; and informed consent is depressingly rare. In Full Surrogacy Now, Sophie Lewis brings a fresh and unique perspective to the topic. Often, we think of surrogacy as the problem, but, Full Surrogacy Now argues, we need more surrogacy, not less! Rather than looking at surrogacy through a legal lens, Lewis argues that the needs and protection of surrogates should be put front and center. Their relationship to the babies they gestate must be rethought, as part of a move to recognize that reproduction is productive work. Only then can we begin to break down our assumptions that children “belong” to those whose genetics they share. Taking collective responsibility for children would radically transform our notions of kinship, helping us to see that it always takes a village to make a baby.