ate mothers. More over, as their pregnancy progressed, the monetary compensation became less important, and became unimportant after the delivery. The potential candidates named following reasons as their motivations (money being one of them, but not most important):
"1) The perceived degree of enjoyment and desire to be pregnant because of the special attention they received while pregnant; because they were doing something only a woman can do; because of a sense of accomplishment from doing something worthwhile.
2) Almost half of the women Thomas A. Shannon interviewed had voluntarily given up their own children for adoption or aborted the pregnancy, and saw being a surrogate as a means "of righting a wrong".
However, none of the surrogates were motivated solely by any of the three reasons individually (money, accomplishment, guilt), but instead a combination of all three to a certain degree."
The surromomsonline.com site was founded and is run by a woman (who calls herself Jane D) who went through being a
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