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Postdelivery adjustment of gestational carriers, intended parents, and their children.

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Surrogacy raises a number of concerns about the psychological adjustment of the surrogate, the parents, and the child. Despite surrogacy becoming more common, research into the postdelivery psychological adjustment of the individuals involved has lagged far behind. This review examines research on the psychological adjustment of surrogates and their children. It then presents findings from studies assessing parents' psychological health and parent-child relationships, and children's adjustment within families formed through surrogacy. Finally, it examines how children born through surrogacy feel about their birth and toward their surrogate. Overall, studies have shown good psychological outcomes for surrogates, parents, and children, but research is still very limited, particularly in relation to the geographical location of the research, the ages of the children studied, and the lack of longitudinal projects. Different forms of surrogacy now exist under the umbrella term of "surrogacy." There is now greater diversity in terms of who is using surrogacy, their motivations for using it, whose gametes are used for the pregnancy, and how a surrogacy arrangement is managed. There is therefore a need for future studies to examine the consequences of these different forms of surrogacy on the postdelivery psychological health of surrogates, surrogacy parents, and their children.

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Children, intended parents, postdelivery, psychological, surrogacy, Adaptation, Psychological, Fathers, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Live Birth, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers, Pregnancy, Reproductive Techniques, Assisted, Surrogate Mothers

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Fertil Steril

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Journal ISSN

0015-0282
1556-5653

Volume Title

113

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Elsevier BV
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Wellcome Trust (208013/Z/17/Z)
This is a review article. My current salary is from Wellcome Trust