TERESA BARON TERESA.BARON@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Nottingham Research Fellow
Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes
Baron, T.; Svingen, E.; Leyva, R.
Authors
E. Svingen
R. Leyva
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.
Citation
Baron, T., Svingen, E., & Leyva, R. (in press). Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-024-10343-1
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 21, 2024 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Deposit Date | May 8, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | May 8, 2024 |
Journal | Journal of Bioethical Inquiry |
Print ISSN | 1176-7529 |
Electronic ISSN | 1872-4353 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-024-10343-1 |
Keywords | Health Policy; Health (social science) |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/33028289 |
Publisher URL | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11673-024-10343-1 |
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