Surrogate Mothering

st cases, the adopted child would say the same.
             On the other hand, who decides which woman gains the title of "true mother? "Do we define a "true mother" the woman who gives physical birth or a child, or the woman who spends her life shaping this baby into and individual. This question is a hard one to answer because most of the stipulations have double standards. Yet when it comes down to it, to "investigating" the circumstances a little closer, it can be stated that no matter who gives birth to the child, the one who raises it and cares for it can be called its mother.
             The word "Mother" can have a lot of different meanings to different people. For some, their grandmother may be considered their mother, or maybe their aunt or close family friend. Because someone came from within a woman, it does not constitute her, nor does it automatically give her the right to be called the mother of the child. Of course they are the biological parent. Yet "mother" holds a higher meaning. If a woman has a child and then abandons it...what kind of woman is that? She's certainly not a mother by any means.
             Webster's Dictionary defines "mother" as: a female parent; a woman in authority; an old or elderly woman. Yet, I define a mother as someone who is there for you always, someone who is up with you in the middle of the night when you don't feel well, someone who is there to wipe the
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