Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation by Sayani Mitra Silke Schicktanz & Tulsi Patel

Author:Sayani Mitra, Silke Schicktanz & Tulsi Patel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The Role of Social Support

Research in the West has shown that surrogates often receive less social support during pregnancy in comparison with general expectant mothers (Fischer and Gillman 1991) or intended mothers (van den Akker 2007). However, in Western countries, it is common for surrogates to receive psychological counselling which can provide them with a source of support (Söderström-Anttila et al. 2016). In India , however, surrogates may be more vulnerable to mental health problems as these services are not usually available to them (Karandikar 2014). In the present study, two-thirds of the surrogates felt that they had received sufficient support during pregnancy with some feeling unsupported. The two main sources of social support for an Indian surrogate were from their family and from other surrogates.

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