While it’s not unusual for couples that decide to spend their lives together to start a family, sometimes this decision can’t follow the traditional route. Most couples will, upon choosing to have a family, conceive a child, with the mother carrying that child to term in her uterus, until childbirth occurs, and the major task…
There is nothing cheap about the decision to start a family. In fact, over the decades, rearing a newborn from infancy to young adulthood—and sometimes beyond—is often one of the most expensive undertakings a couple will ever engage in. But for most couples, the investment in a child starts after childbirth, with food, clothing, the…
Surrogate motherhood is not a fast or easy way for a hopeful family to bring a child into the world. But for some couples, this may be the only way have a child that still carries on the genetic characteristics of both a mother and a father, even when traditional childbirth methods aren’t safe, or…
