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Compare the use of surrogacy with the institution of adoption. How well is adoption suited to present society? Legal parenthood is not a 'static' concept; it may be transferred from one person to another where required; there exist methods for the acquisition or transfer of parental status from one individual/set of individuals to another. Adoption is a familiar example; it is the legal process whereby a court irrevocably extinguishes the legal ties between a child and the natural parents or guardians and creates analogous ties between the child and the adopters who then acquire parental responsibility of the child to the exclusion of all others. As Cooke, notes Surrogacy is another 'strategy.' Broadly speaking, surrogacy involves an undertaking by a woman (the surrogate mother) to bear a child for another person or couple, the latter proposing to undertake care of the child following birth. Two types of surrogacy may be differentiated....

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