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ArticleJournal of bioethical inquiry2024

Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes.

T Baron, E Svingen, R Leyva

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Article in Journal of bioethical inquiry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. The newly enacted Italian surrogacy law: Effects on reproductive tourism.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

T BaronPhilosophy Department, University of Nottingham, School of Humanities, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom. teresa.baron@nottingham.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-9930-209X
E SvingenDepartment of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, University of Birmingham, Muirhead Tower, Ring Road North, Birmingham, B15 2TN, United Kingdom.
R LeyvaDepartment of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, University of Birmingham, Muirhead Tower, Ring Road North, Birmingham, B15 2TN, United Kingdom.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surrogacy and adoption are both family-making measures subject to extensive domestic and international regulation. In this nationally representative survey study (N = 1552), we explore public attitudes to various forms of surrogacy and adoption in the United Kingdom, in response to an early proposal to allow "double donor" surrogacy as part of the ongoing legal reform project. We sought to both gauge public moral support for adoption and surrogacy generally, the effect that prospective parents' fertility had on this support, and the extent to which the public would find equivalencies between "double donor" surrogacy (DDS) and planned private adoption (PPA) to be morally significant. Our findings indicate that whilst there is broad baseline support for all forms of adoption and surrogacy, this support increases significantly when one or both prospective parents are infertile. These findings also suggest that the language in which a family-making arrangement is characterized has a greater influence on moral support for the arrangement than practical features such as the biological relationship (or absence thereof) between one/both parents and the child.

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AdoptionAttitudeGestational CarriersMoralsPublic OpinionAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedParentsPregnancySurveys and QuestionnairesUnited KingdomAdoptionFamiliesFertilityPublic valuesSurrogacy

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PMID38551759
PMCPMC11882719

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