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SUMMARY:Families Created Through Surrogacy: Is There Cause For Concern? - 
 Polly Casey (Centre for Family Research\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20100204T130000Z
DTEND:20100204T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr James Kirkbride
DESCRIPTION:The practice of surrogacy\, whereby the woman who carries and 
 gives birth to the child and the woman who is to raise the child are not t
 he same person\, is the oldest\, and yet most controversial\, of all repro
 ductive interventions. All couples who choose surrogacy as a way to create
  a family must navigate a complex set of issues\, not to mention an ambigu
 ous legal situation\, both before and after the child is born. The presenc
 e of the surrogate mother throughout pregnancy and often after the birth s
 et surrogacy apart from other methods of assisted reproduction\, such as d
 onor insemination or egg donation\, in which third party involvement ends 
 at conception. This talk will outline these issues\, and draw on longitudi
 nal data from the first controlled study of a representative sample of sur
 rogacy families in order to examine the implications of surrogacy for chil
 d development and parent-child relationships.  
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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