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[–]SickOfThisShit 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I didnt see a lot of comments about surrogacy. Most of them were about 'why is the picture in a hospital bed?'. Not sure if those people were GC or not, seems like a dumb question, it's a cute photo they aren't pretendong they gave birth. And as for all the covid stuff this is likely in the maternity ward, I highly doubt they are housing sick patients there.

Anyway for people saying kids should have a mother, I would say ideally all kids would have good male and female roll models in their lives. But having a mother doesn't mean having a good parent. Lots of mothers are terrible and I would bet most gay parents are better than a lot of straight parents. For the specific reason that any gay couple having kids, whether surrogacy or adoption they have planned and prepared to have kids. Lots of straight couples have accidental pregnancies or have kids cause it's the thing to do. It's real easy to have a kid of you are straight, you don't need money, you don't have to pass any reviews to be approved to have children.

There is something to say about kids having trouble growing up without their biological parents. Lots of Adopted kids struggle with that. I imagine kids of surrogacy(assuming the bio mom isn't someone close to the couple) have similar issues and struggles with not knowing one of their bio parents. Don't know if that's true though.

The point of women being able to sell their bodies and the potential damage and exploitation there is a conversation worth having I think, but as someone else pointed out. The vast majority of surrogacy is for straight couples, not gay ones.

[–]reluctant_commenter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But having a mother doesn't mean having a good parent. Lots of mothers are terrible and I would bet most gay parents are better than a lot of straight parents.

Completely agree. A vocal minority of women seem to insist on anointing all mothers with this halo effect and I think it's just another form of benevolent sexism.