Why does surrogacy have a higher success rate than adoption?
Intended parents and surrogates enter surrogacy relationships for different reasons and from different legal positions than people in adoption situations. Surrogacy is essentially a contract for the services of a woman to carry a baby to term. She might be artificially inseminated with the intended fathers sperm, or have the embryo, of the intended fathers sperm and the intended mothers or an egg donors egg or a donated embryo(s) transferred to the uterus of the surrogate. Then the surrogate will give birth to a baby who is genetically linked or belonging to the happy intended parents. The surrogates reasons for becoming pregnant are to help the intended parent or intended parents actually become parents. She also wants to help her own family and herself with the compensation she earns for her services. The genetic link that makes surrogacy desirable for many people, gay or straight, also provides them legal advantages not available in adoption. In surrogacy, the baby is born as the ch
