Basic instinct, inherent in the nature of human nature - the desire to have offspring. The inability to have children is a serious trouble for many couples have own genetic offspring, much nicer than to raise someone else's child. Virtually the only way to have a genetically "their" baby - surrogacy.

Surrogacy motherhood or of substitution - a way to play a human, which bears not the child's biological mother and another woman who plays the role of a substitute. Surrogacy is complete (the fertilized egg of a surrogate mother is being implemented with the help of IVF) and partial when one of the cells (sperm or egg) donor.

If you look back in history, there can be found a lot of examples of how the maids, slaves, serfs become surrogate mothers, nurturing children for their masters. Today the situation is different in some countries surrogacy is legalized and officially sanctioned medical procedure (such as in Russia and Ukraine). In several European countries surrogacy is officially banned (Austria, Germany, Sweden, France) or allowed, but only on a commercial basis.

The problem of maternity complex and multifaceted, and the issue of surrogate motherhood even more complicated by ethical, religious and moral aspects. Representatives of many religions oppose surrogacy and IVF against, explaining that God's intervention in the case. Many people believe that surrogacy is on a commercial basis - a trade in human beings, the child in this case is the object of sale. Legally, the law on the side of the surrogate mother, the child is considered to be her until she did not write an official denial, and it alone has the right to decide the fate of the child.

Many difficulties arise in medical terms, the surrogate mother must be absolutely healthy, that nowadays it is practically impossible, it must comply with all the recommendations of experts and take all the necessary tests and procedures. In addition, there is no guarantee that pregnancy will not have any health complications, the weakening of immunity.

Candidates for surrogate mothers

Surrogate mother can not everyone wants to be a woman. There are a number of significant limitations:

Age from 18 to 35 years

Good physical health and mental state

Having your own child

Lack of addictions (alcoholism, drug addiction), and criminal history

If a female candidate is married, the written consent of her husband to the IVF procedure.

The couple, reshivshayasya hiring women a substitute for carrying a child (a surrogate mother) is required to enter into a written agreement in which the points of prescribed rights and obligations, financial problems and force majeure (the birth of a disabled child, sickness or death of a pregnant woman refusal pair of "customers" of the baby, etc.). Legal validity of this agreement stipulated by the legislation, for example in Russia, customers, in fact, are not protected, and if the surrogate mother does not return the child to them, they can do nothing. In Ukraine, on the contrary, in any case, customers are recognized by parents, and they retain the right to decide the fate of the child.

Many negative against surrogacy express and psychologists, pointing out that between the mother and baby to establish close emotional relationship, and that it is fraught with the destruction of the psyche of the baby. Also, a lot of cases, when there is a surrogate parent to the child feeling, and she refuses to give his customers.

Whatever it was, surrogate motherhood, has been and is likely to be because the basic instinct is the strongest desire to have children and the opportunity to have them, when there is no biological features are increasingly becoming a reality. Every year the number of happy couples obzavedshiysya own genetic children using surrogate mothers is growing, and the number of women to improve their financial condition by surrogate motherhood, is also growing.

The main thing is that the result of this procedure are children, and welcome the long-awaited, many people gain true happiness - and their children learn the basics of parenting.

  Marina Kurochkin