Surrogate Motherhood

By Martha A. Field

Book Overview

Explores the issues of legitimacy and whether or not surrogate motherhood ought to be encouraged from the perspectives of contract law and constitutional law, custody, and adoption law, and the rights of biological fathers and laws governing sperm donation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674857488
• ISBN13: 9780674857483
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Policy Guidance about Surrogacy

This is by far the best book on the subject of surrogate motherhood. It explains why it should not be criminal to enter into a contract for a woman to bear a child for a couple, but that the birth mother can keep the child if she wishes, as with adoption. Most states and countries follow this approach in practice, but they often describe it differently from Field,as she illustrates in her appendix in the 2d edition.Anyway, a great and thoughtful read. Also entertaining -- full of anecdotes and written so that any interested person can understand the policy arguments and Field's convincing proposal for their resolution.Junior high and high school students love it as well as the older. A frequent subject in high school debates.