Surrogate with Benefits

Surrogate with Benefits
Author: Krista Wolf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre:
ISBN:

Three gorgeous businessmen, looking for a surrogate. One headstrong woman, bent on a selfless act. What do you do when business becomes pleasure? Jordyn never expected to play the surrogate for one, much less three of the hottest real estate developers in upstate NY. Yet with their picturesque mansion and live-in amenities? She quickly falls into the most amazing - and unorthodox - of all arrangements. But when the original egg donor bails and she takes on that role as well, Jordyn is faced with a butterfly-inducing decision: continue solely with bi-monthly IVF treatments... or go the natural route and get pregnant organically... with all three of them. The choice is easy, when undeniable chemistry runs headfirst into weeks of pent-up longing. So when limitations are removed and barriers drop away? Jordyn finds herself the sizzling center of a guilt-free, no-strings attached situation in which she - and her most far-flung fantasies - are indulged, triple time. Aiden is the blue-eyed wildchild, and Elliot the reserved yet surprisingly fearless world-traveler. Connor is the ripped, sizzling Irishman, with an intoxicating accent and a shredded athlete's body to match his razor-sharp tongue. Together they take Jordyn on an emotional roller-coaster ride, from the dark secrets of her calloused past to the modern-day wounds the four of them must deal with together. Can three lifelong friends find happiness - and love - in the arms of a spitfire, daredevil of a woman? Or will the ghosts of their previous endeavors threaten to keep their arrangement strictly business? SURROGATE WITH BENEFITS is a smoldering reverse harem love story packed wall-to-wall with humor, suspense, sugary-sweet romance, and stomach-fluttering action. HEA guaranteed!

Labor of Love

Labor of Love
Author: Heather Jacobson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813584388

While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying children that are not genetically their own. While some women volunteer to act as gestational surrogates for friends or family members, others get paid for performing this service. The first ethnographic study of gestational surrogacy in the United States, Labor of Love examines the conflicted attitudes that emerge when the ostensibly priceless act of bringing a child into the world becomes a paid occupation. Heather Jacobson interviews not only surrogate mothers, but also their family members, the intended parents who employ surrogates, and the various professionals who work to facilitate the process. Seeking to understand how gestational surrogates perceive their vocation, she discovers that many regard surrogacy as a calling, but are reluctant to describe it as a job. In the process, Jacobson dissects the complex set of social attitudes underlying this resistance toward conceiving of pregnancy as a form of employment. Through her extensive field research, Jacobson gives readers a firsthand look at the many challenges faced by gestational surrogates, who deal with complicated medical procedures, delicate work-family balances, and tricky social dynamics. Yet Labor of Love also demonstrates the extent to which advances in reproductive technology are affecting all Americans, changing how we think about maternity, family, and the labor involved in giving birth. For more, visit http://www.heatherjacobsononline.com/

Surrogates

Surrogates
Author: Paul Weiss
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2003-01-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253109639

Surrogates introduces an important new philosophic topic: the pervasive ways that things stand for one another in nature and human experience. Going beyond semiotic theory, Paul Weiss interprets surrogacy in terms of metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, and religious dimensions of life, integrating the concept into a systematic way of regarding reality. Just as philosophy brings a systematic set of questions to the issue of surrogate reality, Weiss's investigation of the topic raises new questions for philosophy itself, manifesting his great concern for philosophy's freedom and creativity. The author concludes each chapter with a provocative set of questions and answers that engage imagined critics in a dialogue. Together with his previous book, Emphatics, Surrogates constitutes a richly textured phenomenology of human experience with important ramifications for contemporary pragmatism. The wit and intelligence of this volume are a delight for any reader.

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.

Discounted Life

Discounted Life
Author: Sharmila Rudrappa
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2015-12-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1479825328

Sharmila Rudrappa interrogates the creation and maintenance of reproductive labor markets, the function of agencies and surrogacy brokers, and how women become surrogate mothers. Is surrogacy solely a labor contract for which the surrogate mother receives wages, or do its meanings and import exceed the confines of the market? Rudrappa argues that this reproductive industry is organized to control and disempower women workers and yet her interviews reveal that, by and large, the surrogate mothers in Bangalore found the experience life affirming. Rudrappa explores this tension, and the lived realities of many surrogate mothers whose deepening bodily commodification is paradoxically experienced as a revitalizing life development.

Interpretable Machine Learning

Interpretable Machine Learning
Author: Christoph Molnar
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0244768528

This book is about making machine learning models and their decisions interpretable. After exploring the concepts of interpretability, you will learn about simple, interpretable models such as decision trees, decision rules and linear regression. Later chapters focus on general model-agnostic methods for interpreting black box models like feature importance and accumulated local effects and explaining individual predictions with Shapley values and LIME. All interpretation methods are explained in depth and discussed critically. How do they work under the hood? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How can their outputs be interpreted? This book will enable you to select and correctly apply the interpretation method that is most suitable for your machine learning project.

Wombs in Labor

Wombs in Labor
Author: Amrita Pande
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0231538189

Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on how reproduction meets production in surrogacy and how this reflects characteristics of India's larger labor system. Pande's interviews prove surrogates are more than victims of disciplinary power, and she examines the strategies they deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. While some women are coerced into the business by their families, others negotiate with clients and their clinics to gain access to technologies and networks otherwise closed to them. As surrogates, the women Pande meets get to know and make the most of advanced medical discoveries. They traverse borders and straddle relationships that test the boundaries of race, class, religion, and nationality. Those who focus on the inherent inequalities of India's surrogacy industry believe the practice should be either banned or strictly regulated. Pande instead advocates for a better understanding of this complex labor market, envisioning an international model of fair-trade surrogacy founded on openness and transparency in all business, medical, and emotional exchanges.

Surrogate and Wife

Surrogate and Wife
Author: Emily McKay
Publisher: Mira
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2007
Genre: Large print books
ISBN: 9780263198805

Benefits Assessment

Benefits Assessment
Author: J.D. Bentkover
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9400945248

In recent years there has been substantial interest in benefits assessment methods, especially as these methods are used to assess health, safety, and environmental issues. At least part of this interest can be traced to Executive Order 12291, issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. This Executive Order requires Federal agencies to perform benefits assessments of pro posed major regulations and prohibits them from taking regulatory action unless potential benefits exceed potential costs to society. Heightened interest in benefits assessment methods has in tum given rise to greater recognition of the inherent difficulties in performing such assess ments. For example, many benefits that are intuitively felt to be most important are also among the most difficult to measure. It can be difficult to identify the full range of both benefits and costs. The choice of an appro priate discount rate for comparing benefits and costs over time is proble matic. Even when benefits are quantifiable in principle and agreement can be reached on their valuation, required d,ata may not be available. Thus considerable uncertainty is built into most benefit estimates, even when they are based on the best available data. In light of the complexities and difficulties associated with the perform ance of a benefits assessment, this book reviews the current state of theoretical and methodological knowledge in the field. The review is extensive in that it covers over fifty years of research, theoretical develop ment, and practice.

The Benefit/Risk Ratio

The Benefit/Risk Ratio
Author: Hans C. Korting
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1998-07-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781439805916

The use of drugs as remedies for various types of diseases has a long tradition; however, it has only been recently recognized that the value of any given compound must be evaluated in light of its benefit to risk ratio. When prescribing drugs, physicians must look at the big picture of the drug's benefits in relation to its side effects and possib