News Finding: For Jill Wolfe's kids, surrogacy seems completely natural.
Paper Finding: Conclusions: The absence of a gestational connection to the mother may be more problematic for children than the absence of a genetic link.
News Context: While all the children seemed to be doing well by age 10, Golombok says, the concern is, trouble could crop up later as kids hit their adolescence and are trying to find their identities and place in the world, experts say. For Jill Wolfe's kids, surrogacy seems completely natural. That, the 42-year-old Minneapolis mom says, is because she and her husband began explaining things early.
Paper Context: However, maternal distress had a more negative impact on children who were aware of their origins. Conclusions: The absence of a gestational connection to the mother may be more problematic for children than the absence of a genetic link. When the mother's egg and father's sperm are used in IVF and the mother undergoes the pregnancy, the parents have both a genetic and gestational link to the child in the same way as parents of naturally conceived children.