“There is a common belief that surrogate mothers bond with the baby they carry, and later decide to keep it,” Teman said in a recent interview. “The truth is that less than one-tenth of 1 percent of cases end up in court. Surrogates don’t bond with the babies. They bond with the women — the women they are making into mothers.”
Elly Teman, an Israeli anthropologist at the University of Pennysylvania, explores issues and topics related to surrogacy in her new book Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self.
I just ordered a copy for myself!
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