Click here for details on suggesting a site. A parent is the legally recognized father or mother of a person. In most cases, the term applies only to biological mothers and fathers. But statutes in most American jurisdictions, consider people who adopt children to be parents.
Parenthood provides certain rights and duties between parents and minor children.
Surrogate motherhood is the practice whereby a woman bears a child or children on behalf of other parents. The success rates for traditional surrogacy pregnancy are 85 percent within six inseminations. Gestational surrogacy pregnancies ranged from 23 percent to 50 percent in the late 1990s. Below are links pertaining to single and surrogate parents. CCF is one of the world's most respected child development organizations, helping millions of children in over 30 countries worldwide.