A brief overview on surrogacy and its types

Surrogacy is the most popular Assisted Reproductive Technology method where the infertile couples hire a lady to have a biological child to establish their family. Apart from sterile couple, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) couples hire surrogates to realize their dreams of paternity. Infertility affects more than seven million people alone in the United States of America and the most shocking part is around 12% of the total women population in the USA are suffering from infertility. Most of the sterile couples overcome their struggle and choose surrogacy to realize the dreams of paternity.

Once the intended parents decide to choose surrogacy, they need to contact the best agency such as surrogates across America to find the suitable surrogate. The agencies explain the terminologies, legal issues and the complication revolve around surrogacy. Meanwhile, even intended parents need to do research on surrogacy and its types. There are two types; traditional and gestational. Gestational is the most common and most popular type of surrogacy as it is legally less complicated and the baby born through this process and completely unrelated to the genes of a surrogate mother. This mean the baby through this process is genetically related to the intended parents or donors (if their sperm or egg is used).

Traditional substitute process is legally more complicated and in some states and countries, this type of substitute method is completely banned. Since the baby born through this process is genetically related to the substitute mother and intended father, most of the state laws consider the surrogate and intended father as the legal parents of the baby.

Therefore, while entering to the agreement read the conditions, legal rights and the compensation part carefully. If you are not sure about the process and terminologies, ask your agency to clarify the same.