Green light for Australians' surrogate babies to leave Cambodia

[geovalin]

Cambodia's strongman leader, Hun Sen, has approved a strategy to allow surrogacy-born babies with Australian biological parents to leave the capital, Phnom Penh. The move will come as a relief for up to 70 Australian couples, most of whom faced financial and family hardships trying to get their babies home from the impoverished nation.

 

Some of the couples have been trying for months to get approval through Cambodia's corrupt and dysfunctional legal system for their babies to leave. As a human crisis developed, fears were held for twins who are expected to soon be born prematurely, requiring high levels of neo-natal care.

 

Lindsay Murdoch

 

read more http://www.smh.com.au/world/green-light-for-australians-surrogate-babies-to-leave-cambodia-20170403-gvcims.html

[jak2002003]

Never understand why this sort of thing is allowed in the first place.  What's wrong with just getting a puppy or kitten to look after if you can't have kids? 

 

Or, just go and adopt a child who needs a loving home and people to care about them. 

 

 

[oxo1947]

Is that tongue in cheek Jak ?

So many couples go through a lot of heartache trying to have a baby Intrauterine insemination..etc

They would like  (love ) to  have a child bring it up===have grandchildren etc..maybe they even feel they are leaving a legacy of sorts.

 

You feel a cat is  an adequate substitution for all  those things....?

 

16 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Or, just go and adopt a child who needs a loving home and people to care about them. 

isn't that what they are doing....is there some reason it can not come from Cambodia....??? It isn't easy to adopt a Australian child..... single mothers keep them---its not the 1950s Jak

[jak2002003]

7 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

Is that tongue in cheek Jak ?

So many couples go through a lot of heartache trying to have a baby Intrauterine insemination..etc

They would like  (love ) to  have a child bring it up===have grandchildren etc..maybe they even feel they are leaving a legacy of sorts.

 

You feel a cat is  an adequate substitution for all  those things....?

 

isn't that what they are doing....is there some reason it can not come from Cambodia....??? It isn't easy to adopt a Australian child..... single mothers keep them---its not the 1950s Jak

Yes, it is 'tongue in cheek'.  But some couples place too much importance of having children.  Women, in particular go through so much heartache and stress.. often leading to failed relationships, from trying over and over again to have a child from their own DNA.  If they really want to rear a child, as I said, their time and money are better spent of adopting a child in real need of a home, not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on impregnating other women on different continents with their eggs, or husbands sperm, or growing babies in test tubes - fertility treatment, etc.  The money wasted on fertility treatment is crazy, when that money could be put to better uses.. to cure children of cancer and other diseases for example.

 

Not being rude, but you might want to look up what 'surrogacy' means.   It's not adopting children that have lost their parents.