Gay fathers’ motivatns for and feelgs about surrogacy as a path to parenthood - PMC

Contents:

• GAY FATHERS, GOG IT ALONE
• THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
• GAY FATHERS’ MOTIVATNS FOR AND FEELGS ABOUT SURROGACY AS A PATH TO PARENTHOOD
• THE SURROGACY OPTN: A GENERAL OVERVIEW FOR GAY COUPL

GAY FATHERS, GOG IT ALONE

As the tradnal ncept of fay ntu to evolve, sgle gay men havg children through surrogacy are begng to Williams and his 4-year-old son, ScherPhotographs by Sara Naomi LewkowiczOct. Surrogacy agenci across the untry report a surge of tert om sgle gay men the last few Marsh, a spokwoman for Men Havg Babi, a nonprof that helps gay men navigate the surrogacy procs, said that the crease tert om sgle men is part of a broar surge gay fai. ”Most sgle gay men pursue what is known as gtatnal surrogacy: the surrogate is implanted wh a fertilized embryo taken om a separate egg donor.

“Growg up gay a homophobic town, and tough fancial tim, was hard to see how I’d have my own kids, ” he parents stng together several low-wage jobs, and he’s the first his fay to earn a bachelor’s gree. Towers stayed Oregon for three more weeks, until the tws were ready for the long flight home to New unpredictable as the medil prospect of surrogacy may be, some gay men prefer that to the possibily of facg discrimatn Williams had his son, Elan, via surrogacy four years ago. “As a sgle, gay black man, ” he said, “I figured I’d be at the bottom of the list for most women.

THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

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Through IVF, embryos are created a lab at a fertily clic, g the gay tend parents' blogy (one or both) as well as an egg donor. Surrogacy is a safe way to have the fay you Surrogacy was found by a lawyer and gay dad through surrogacy, John Weltman.

Although surrogacy for heterosexual tend parents and same-sex tend parents is largely siar, there are a few factors that make 's important to unrstand your rights as parents, and what the surrogacy laws are your state or untry, and the state which your surrogate legal procr for gay parentgPre-Birth Orr (PBO): A urt proceedg that tablish parental rights prr to the birth of the child. When a gay uple liv a state or untry where same-sex marriage isn’t legal, be even more important to tablish the documents.

GAY FATHERS’ MOTIVATNS FOR AND FEELGS ABOUT SURROGACY AS A PATH TO PARENTHOOD

Ensurg that your surrogate liv a state which you'll be able to safely and securely tablish your parental rights is ccial for a succsful more about surrogacy and the law for gay parentsSee, and why havg proper legal reprentatn is cril for a succsful journey. Not every surrogacy agency is a good f, fdg a surrogacy agency wh which you have good chemistry and who shar your views about surrogacy for gay dividual or upl is key to a succsful journey. Surrogate matchg preferenc for gay and trans you're workg wh a surrogacy agency such as Circle, there are certa creria on which you will be matched wh your gtatnal rrier.

Regular munitn also helps tend parents feel fortable wh their surrogate, and feel part of the pregnancy and a gay tend parent, buildg a relatnship wh your surrogate also helps you tell your child their orig story, and giv him/her the opportuny to know the woman who helped create your fay. NPR spoke to three men, sgle gay fathers, who chose to bee dads via surrogacy, after years of g to terms wh their inti, their fai, and the technologil advanc that have ma journeys like this possible.

"Sometim the gay muny is seen as, oh, 's the funny guy who's always about fashn or always about travel, " says Dt Lg.

THE SURROGACY OPTN: A GENERAL OVERVIEW FOR GAY COUPL

Raised on the island natn of Aba to Asian parents, Lg says there weren't many exampl of gay men around. But after he me to the realizatn that he was gay his mid-20s, he realized he would have to fd a different way of beg a parent. In 2018, when Julien first started lookg at fertily clic optns, he kept g across RMA of Connecticut and Gay Parents To Be on social media.

Still, Julien wanted to explore all of his optns, so he went to a Men Havg Babi nference New York Cy, where he met Gay Parents To Be founr Dr. Leondir' personal fay-buildg story, as a gay man and father through surrogacy himself, and felt like Dr. RMA of Connecticut & Gay Parents To Be's virtual support groups offered Julien a safe space to nnect wh others who unrstood how difficult the fertily treatment roller aster n be, which he says was credibly helpful.

Sierra Dehmler is the Content Marketg Manager for Gay Parents To Be and s partner clic, Illume Fertily. There are many roads that n lead to your future fay cludg adoptn and a foster to adopt journey, but here at Gay Parents To Be we specialize helpg dads-to-be build their fai blogilly – through egg donatn, IVF and surrogacy.

Leondir found Gay Parents To Be as a personal and profsnal journey, after he learned first-hand how challengg n for gay men to have a baby. Our team at Gay Parents To Be unrstands that fay buildg for dads volv a unique set of challeng, and we strive to support you– whether this is your first step or a stop along the way.

Nila Carone and others, Surrogacy fai head by gay men: relatnships wh surrogat and egg donors, fathers’ cisns over disclosure and children’s views on their surrogacy origs, Human Reproductn, Volume 33, Issue 2, Febary 2018, Pag 248–257,. STUDY QUESTIONHow do gay father fai experience surrogacy terms of their relatnships wh surrogat and egg donors, fathers’ disclosure cisns and children’s views on their surrogacy origs? SUMMARY ANSWERMore fai had a relatnship wh the surrogate than the egg donor, and almost all had started to disclose to their children, the majory of whom exprsed limed tert their surrogacy IS KNOWN ALREADYGay fathers tend to report greater ntact wh the surrogate than the egg donor and to disclose only the e of a surrogate (omtg discsn of the egg donor and the rpective fathers’ geic relatedns).

Children’s views on their surrogacy nceptn to gay fathers are not DESIGN, SIZE, DURATIONThirty-one children and 80 fathers were terviewed as part of a larger -pth vtigatn of 40 Italian gay father surrogacy fai. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODSChildren were aged 6–12 years and had been born to gay fathers through gtatnal surrogacy. LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTIONThe sample’s nvenience nature and the gay father fai’ high e limed the reprentativens of the fdgs.

Further, some children belonged to the same fay, and this uld have biased the rults, as the children may have had siar IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGSPrr to this study, the voice of children nceived by gay fathers through surrogacy had not been heard. An creasg number of gay men are creatg fai through surrogacy (Norton et al., 2013)—a practice whereby a woman (the ‘surrogate’) bears a pregnancy for the tend parent(s) wh the tentn of handg over the rultg child. California or Canada) of the ma ncerns regardg gay father surrogacy fai pertas to the surrogate–child relatnship, as is assumed that the child may view the surrogate as a mother and suffer when there is no relatnship—or one that is limed by physil distance (Golombok, 2015; Lgiardi and Carone, 2016b).