Surrogate Motherhood Families (1st ed. 2017 edition.)

This comprehensive text covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties.

Olga Van den Akker details the psychological adaptation required to continuing changes in public opinion, advances in technologies and new legislations in surrogate motherhood and discusses their impact at an individual, societal and global level.

She describes the competing interests and interactions between legal, organisational, personal, social, psychological and cultural issues in relation to biological and genetic surrogate and commissioning parenthood.