So, what about the surrogate kids?

There’s lots of debate about surrogacy and motherhood (Surrogate mothers – womb for rent?) but what about the babies? How do they fare after they’ve been brought into the world?

According to a study presented today at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual conference in Barcelona, Spain, they’re doing just fine.

Researchers have been following 39 surrogacy families, 43 donor insemination families and 46 egg donation families. The children are now seven years old. Through interviews, the researchers determined that children who were born to a surrogate mother or conceived through donated sperm or egg do just as well psychologically as children who are conceived the “old-fashioned” way.

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