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Article: How many parents can a baby have? Cases of posthumous dads and surrogate moms stretch judges.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 7, 2002
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Byline: Seth Stern Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Coming soon to a courtroom near you: five or more people all claiming to be the rightful parent of a single child.
In this era of advancing reproductive technologies, one baby may, indeed, result from an egg donor, a sperm donor, a woman who carries the baby during gestation, and the couple who intends to raise the child.
If that's not confusing enough, the biological father may be dead for years by the time the child is actually conceived, a situation made possible by stockpiles of frozen sperm.
The reproductive jumble is shattering traditional definitions of parenthood - ...