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Published: September 21, 2024

Older single men are using surrogacy to purchase children without a background check: report

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Sat Sep 21, 2024 – 7:00 am EDTFri Sep 20, 2024 – 9:53 am EDT

(LifeSiteNews) — An incredibly disturbing report in the Mail on Sunday reveals, once again, the dangers of surrogacy and the social chaos that results from the commodification of children and the redefinition of the family. 

According to the Daily Mail

Almost 300 men aged over 50 have applied to become the legal father of a surrogate child over the past five years – and 43 of them are over 60, new figures reveal. And a total of 95 single men applied to become a parent, reflecting a growing trend in men, especially older men, having babies alone with the help of surrogates. Since the law changed in 2019 to give single people the same surrogacy rights as couple, there have been 2,162 applications from intended parents in England. A total of 293 would-be fathers are over 50, both solo and in couples, according to figures released following a Freedom of Information Act application from The Mail on Sunday.

Think about that hard for a moment: single, middle-aged men are renting women to gestate the children they have purchased and then becoming the legal,

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