Surrogate Mother

I.   Introduction


      When couples have trouble falling pregnant, many are prepared to try anything to help them conceive.
      Women who agree to become surrogates or baby - makers may do so for compassionate reasons. These include a sister, mother or close friend of the couple. They may also do so for financial fee - and this could be a woman, with or without children, known or unknown to the couple, who rents her womb for a fee.


      A.   Significance of the Study



By way of this study, aspiring psychologists, researchers, and somehow the disgraceful people who practice baby-making as their job will become conscious or aware of the negative effects, especially on the moral aspect, brought by this kind of job.   It will be significant for the families, friends, customers or clients, and other people in the baby makers’ surrounding to understand the feeling of being criticized by others together with their feeling of having lessened dignity.   Criticized people end up feeling angry, worthless, unloved and undeserving, and their self-esteem drops.

Since this study have an objective of having an enhanced and heightened self-esteem despite of such denunciation, results can serve as an eye-opener to people who keeps on criticizing those pitiful people in the hope to realize developments that will redirect a person’s goals in life.

      B.   Reasons for Choosing the Case

      Many years ago, Maalaala Mo Kaya, a long – time running true-to-life drama show on ABS-CBN, had featured a story about a baby maker.   That stunning episode really hit me - it made me realize that baby makers, like any other human being, also have feelings too.   From then on, I was badly concerned about those baby makers.


      I personally chose this case for a simple reason that it bothers me a lot to hear such a situation like this.   I always ask myself why do they have to do ‘baby-making’ as their job whereas there are other decent jobs that may not diminish... [continues]

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