Does Surrogacy Lead to Identity Crisis ?

— Surrogacy is a very important invention of medical science. It is responsible for bringing smiles to many childless people world wide. There are different kinds of surrogacy but their motto is same - to fulfill the desires of childless people to have a baby of their own. There are not only married couples who desire to have baby through surrogacy as they are facing infertility issue, but there are other conditions too like - single individuals who want to have babies or people from LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) community or women who are fertile but don't want to conceive the baby by themselves, still they want to be parents. In our multi layered society, we can witness many different situations where either women or men or sometimes the both of a couple are facing infertility issues or any other physiological barriers or women who don't want to take this responsibility. So it is not possible to generalize the reason of choosing surrogacy method to have own baby. But the most important part of this medical treatment is giving the emotional feeling of genetic connection with the baby to intended couples or individuals. But a baby, born in this process may suffer from identity crisis as there are multiple persons involved in a single surrogacy birth process. These many engagements may make this procedure emotionally volatile to the child sometimes. In commercial surrogacy, the opportunity of getting mentally attached to surrogate mother is less but in altruistic surrogacy process this opportunity is higher and even we can say that it may be inevitable in maximum cases as it happens within family members.