A civil liberties analysis of surrogacy arrangements.

Surrogacy from the perspectives of economic and civil liberties.

The dimensionality of American political attitudes: tensions between equality and freedom in the wake of September 11

Initiatives which are intended to reduce the risk of a terrorist attack may impact not only civil liberties including privacy, but civil rights or equality as well. In the present paper, we consider conceptual tradeoffs among attitudes towards security, civil liberties and civil rights, and examine the psychometric structure of these attitudes in both congressional ratings and survey data. An e...

Gay men's experiences of surrogacy clinics in India.

While growing numbers of Australian gay men are entering into 'offshore' surrogacy arrangements in order to become parents, little empirical research has been conducted with this population. This article reports on a qualitative analysis of interviews with 12 gay men who had entered into surrogacy arrangements in India. The findings outline both positive and negative experiences in terms of sup...

Australians' use of surrogacy.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the characteristics of parents and intended parents and their current and planned behaviour in relation to surrogacy arrangements. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Members of two Australian parenting support forums who were considering surrogacy or were currently or previously in a surrogacy arrangement were invited to complete an online survey during July 2013. MA...

Families created through surrogacy arrangements: parent-child relationships in the 1st year of life.

Findings are presented of a study of families created through surrogacy arrangements. Forty-two surrogacy families were compared with 51 egg-donation families and 80 natural-conception families on standardized interview and questionnaire measures of the psychological well-being of the parents, the quality of parent-child relationships, and infant temperament. The differences that were identifie...