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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"surrogacy"”.
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Surrogacy in South Africa. Is there a need to amend laws on remunerated surrogacy?
The issue of surrogacy is gaining prominence, because of the rise of infertility in South Africa and globally. The availability of new technological innovations and improvements, shortage of children for adoption and the desire to have a child who is genetically related to the parents is prompting …
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Issues and Trends in Surrogacy
… primary needs of the patient. The inclusion of surrogacy in the nursing education curriculum is some of the key considerations that have been identified as a necessity to the current generation.
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Reproductive Migrations: Surrogacy workers and stratified reproduction in St Petersburg
Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman conceives in order to give birth to child or children for another individual or couple to raise. This thesis explores how commercial gestational surrogacy is culturally framed and socially organised in Russia and investigates the roles of the key actors. …
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Gay Men and Surrogacy: Navigating Boundaries in the Procreative Realm
… male couples are exploring the possibility of surrogacy as a means of creating a family. To date, no studies have explicitly explored men’s use of surrogacy within the UK context where gamete donation is highly regulated and commercial surrogacy is illegal. This study employed a qualitative, …
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The Effects of Sexual Surrogacy on Satisfaction, Happiness, and Well-Being
<p>The study tested the effects of sexual surrogacy, which I define as the desire to fulfill sexual needs with a surrogate target (e.g., celebrity crushes), on sexual satisfaction, relationship, happiness, and well-being. To examine this topic, I conducted a cross-sectional experimental study. …
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Attempting to be dad and dad: examining the challenges of surrogacy for gay couples in Namibia
… couple’s rights to create families by means of surrogacy. It concluded this by examining challenges of surrogacy for gay couples in Namibia and found that gay couples experience numerous challenges in creating families. In its research it discovers that Namibia’s position on gay couples stems …
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A surrogate mother’s post-birth contact with the family formed through surrogacy: a missed opportunity for South Africa or opening pandora’s box?
… current framework on post-birth contact in surrogacy law and explores whether it adequately protects the interests of all parties to the surrogacy agreement. This assessment reviewed the current legislative and practical framework, and then compared it to the Verona Principles’ best …
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Labor pains: An exploration of the complex roles of identity, the body, and policy in surrogacy discourses in India
… and policy to analysis of the process of surrogacy in India. Using qualitative interview methods and discourse analysis, the study aims to increase understanding of how the process of transnational surrogacy emerges, and the impact it has on participants. Interviews were conducted in …
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Digital pregnancy through domestic objects : creation of debate around the topic of surrogacy through creation of speculative domestic objects
… having children. For many of them, strategies of surrogacy or freezing eggs are popular options not only because of available technological advancements but also because of shifts in cultural perspective enabled by a new biotechnical regime. The dichotomy that forces an "either-or" divide between …
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Psychological well-being, maternal-foetal bonding and experiences of Indian surrogates
… has become an international hub of cross-border surrogacy. The extreme economic and cultural differences between international couples seeking surrogacy and the surrogates themselves, clinics compromising health of surrogates for profit, the stigmatisation of surrogacy in India, and the constant …
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Psychological Well-Being, Maternal-Foetal Bonding and Experiences of Indian Surrogates
… has become an international hub of cross-border surrogacy. The extreme economic and cultural differences between international couples seeking surrogacy and the surrogates themselves, clinics compromising health of surrogates for profit, the stigmatisation of surrogacy in India, and the constant …
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Eugenic Utopia or Postmodern Peril? A Discussion of the Ethics of Reproductive Technology
… the ethical questions raised by those who use surrogacy, fertility drugs, and/or various laboratory procedures in order to bear children. The overriding theme is the part that selfish, indifferent individualism characteristic of a present-day liberal democracy plays in guiding people's use of …
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Introversion and the Use of Parasocial Interaction to Satisfy Belongingness Needs
… benefit introverts. According to the Social Surrogacy Hypothesis, one such way is through parasocial interaction (Derrick, Gabriel, & Hugenberg, 2009), i.e., the one-sided relationships people form with personalities from television or other media (Horton & Wohl, 1956). Research has shown …
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Playing alone, feeling connected: do single-player video games with social surrogates replenish belonging after social rejection
… indirect manner. Also, according to the social surrogacy hypothesis, solo gameplay can provide social surrogates, symbolic bonds that can replenish belonging. Players can form parasocial relationships (one-way psychological bonds) with a non-player character in the game; players can also immerse …
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One Lonely Line
… infertility: miscarriage, fertility treatments, surrogacy, adoption, and the decision to live childfree. A wide spectrum of grief is presented-emotions range from despair and jealousy to anger and disbelief. While the characters and circumstances differ, the pain and alienation of the condition …
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Tsenguluso nga ha ndeme yau vha na vhana mutani wa Tshivenda mulovha na namusi
… as issues of having children, that is adoption, surrogacy and artificial insermination.
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The Village Mother in Selected Works of Toni Morrison
… surrogate mother. The Bluest Eye shows negative surrogacy and Sula shows the positives and negatives of biological and surrogate motherhood. Considered together, the novels work to form a village and each of the four novels is a vital community member. Collectively, the novels show the strengths …
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Theory and Algorithms for Penalization, Graphical Models, and Surrogate Marker Evaluation
… and propose two new ones, the population surrogacy fraction of treatment effect and time-varying F-measure. The new measures complement the existing statistical framework and apply to the HIV Prevention Trial Network 052 Study.
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שאלת ההזרעה המלאכותית בספרות השו"ת
… such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF), surrogacy and egg donation. The study attempts to elucidate the formation of Halacha on this question according to the Responsa literature starting from the Rishonim (the early authorities) period (11th till 15th centuries) and up to the Acharonim …
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