• Dr. Jasdeep Kaur

Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman agrees to carry the child on behalf of the intended parents. It is regarded as a controversial concept. It represents conflict between family, motherhood and role of gender. It is the most complicated of the new reproductive technologies as it adds dimension of genetic motherhood between biological and social parenthood. The arguments are often raised against causing harm to the human dignity and re-enforcement of gender hierarchy. It is further believed that it disintegrates the family system and parent child relationship. It is often believed that surrogacy is a cause for the commodification of the surrogate and the child born out of surrogacy arrangements. Further as in case of a surrogacy contract, the surrogate is asked to relinquish the custody of the child, it is having psychological implications both for the child and surrogate. However the researcher in the present article will emphasize the positive aspect of the surrogacy arrangements while analyzing all these psychosocial aspect of surrogacy. The paper will be an attempt to conclude that surrogacy is not having negative psychosocial aspect. The need is only to accept the arrangement by the society openly and not confidentially.

Surrogacy, Assisted Reproduction

"AN OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECT OF SURROGACY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.174-180, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906O26.pdf

"AN OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECT OF SURROGACY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp174-180, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906O26.pdf