Transitions in Surrogacy: What is New and What Has Diversified

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  • 代理出産における変遷――何が新しく何が多様なのか――
  • ダイリ シュッサン ニ オケル ヘンセン : ナニ ガ アタラシク ナニ ガ タヨウ ナ ノ カ

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<p>Surrogacy is a method to obtain children from a woman who carries the fetus and relinquishes the infant upon request. Although using this method is often regarded as a “new” phenomenon, it is a form of “contract pregnancy,” used in East Asia until modernization.</p><p>The current “surrogacy” boom that has prevailed across the world was “invented” by an American lawyer in 1976. Since surrogacy began to use in-vitro fertilization, during the1990s, courts have prioritized the intention to have children over the biological bonds in custody cases. As a result, those that desire children and have the economic resources to use surrogacy obtain children.</p><p>What major clients seek from surrogacy is to establish a “modern nuclear family”(with love, romantic sexuality, child-rearing, and permanent connection through marriage). Surrogacy has led to the diversification of people who can create such a family instead of diversifying the forms of family. Hence, families generated by surrogacy converge on the homogeneous modern family. In short, surrogacy traps people inside narrower family values while exposing women and children to many risks.</p>

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