Completing the surrogate motherhood process: Parental order reporters' attitudes towards surrogacy arrangements, role ambiguity and role conflict

Human Fertility

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 94-99

  Purewal, Satvinder ^a   Crawshaw, Marilyn ^b   Van Den Akker, Olga ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child's welfare; Crossborder reproductive care; Parental order reporter; Social work; Surrogacy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PARENTHOOD; PERCEPTION; POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; TRAINING;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ATTITUDE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROLE; SOCIAL WORK; SURROGATE MOTHERS;

EID: 84861373224     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2012.668746     Document Type: Article

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