can also have a social and a genetic father. We have rooted many of our ideas about kinship in biology. We equate giving birth with motherhood. Technologies produce new forms of parenthood and challenge the tradition definition of what makes a mother.
In the article Surrogate Motherhood: Rethinking Biological Models, Kinship and Family by Helena Ragone we find many different models for motherhood. There are two types of surrogates: Traditional surrogates which are surrogates that not only carry the fetus but also contribute their ovum, also known as artificial insemination (A.I.) and gestational surrogates who are not at all genetically related to the fetus, also known as in-vitro fertilization (I.V.F.). I.V.F. has become more popular o
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