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Reproductive technology is changing the way we create families. In turn, the ways in which society, policy makers, and lawmakers view the family is changing. The explosion in reproductive technology since the birth of Louise Brown in England in 1978 has stretched the concept of procreation and the family far beyond both traditional expectations and established legal parameters. Long gone are the days of “Mom, dad, and baby makes three.” A child born today may have as many as five “parents”—a biological father and mother, a gestational mother, and a rearing father and mother.
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Crockin, S.L. (1993). The Legal Response to the New Reproductive Technologies. In: Seibel, M.M., Bernstein, J. (eds) Technology and Infertility. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9205-7_43
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