Why do we all hate people in yoga pants? They're great for asses that just keep getting bigger. Nice and stretchy.

So what? Why can't they complain? Even with the help of sitters, nannies, au pairs. The reason they're complaining is because a lot of them went from intellectually stimulating, valuable careers in which they were highly respected (the "opt out" trend) and are finding out that being a SAHM is made up a series of…

Who cares about this woman? Most SAHM have significant problems with their jobs. There's built in stress factors that are uncompromising. It's a 24 hour job. It's not a job where you have built in coworkers to vent with, talk to, or just enjoy the actual human interaction of one adult to another. Its not a job that…

So...she looks more white? that's super, Mark Shrayber. Is this post a joke?

OMG. The last two lines really makes this story.

Well in that case, <3!

Uh, you mean like her brother? Is that everyone? Honestly, I don't care who she is telling, it's her business, she can tell who she wants. It's as private as you want to make it, and the decision is certainly nobody else's business.

Oh, then everything's ok. You can be judgmental and arrogant and the "<3" totally makes up for it. Hugs!

No arrogance with you though! Nothing arrogant about telling other people how they should or should not form their family.

Thank you, sincerely.

That's OK, I have a feeling a lot of people find you utterly repulsive overall.

Then why don't you adopt one, you heel? And p.s. it's not always about looking like their parents or passing along genes. Maybe they want the experience of nurturing a child from the womb. Watching it grow into a baby, watching it enter the world, watching it take its first breath, and being with it from that first…

How easy and cheap do you think it is to adopt a baby? Maybe not everyone wants to start off with a teenager? Maybe not everybody is equipped to deal with the significant health issues in adoptable babies? Do you think there is some Poor Baby Market where you can pop in and pick up a poor, underprivileged infant for…

Thanks for your permission, enjoy your many babies! My husband and I will just be crying over in the corner while the rest of this thread tries not to fall off its high horse.

No, this is textbook for why it should be highly regulated. It is in many states in the U.S. and works quite well here.

You can't tell baby's eye color before birth. These hypotheticals are irrelevant and not really comparable. Also, if the biological parents just decided they didn't want the kid anymore (after going to the enormous trouble and cost of surrogacy, but ok, whatever, its your hypothetical) they should have no right to…

OMG, the parents are fucking idiots/monsters. Why not just go to India? Why Thailand? They made so many mistakes that common sense could have corrected, I can't even. Thank god (or rather, thank mom and dad) I never had to go through a foreign surrogacy.

Any problems in particular, besides this story, which is clearly highly irregular (else it wouldn't have made the news)?

It's not though, when she agrees to rent her womb out to someone else. She then (typically) agrees to do as the Intended Parents see fit. That's the whole point. You should never enter into a surrogacy relationship if you have strong feelings on the matter, which differ from the Intended Parents (i.e. don't become a…

Its actually not that confusing when done in the U.S. This situation would never have arisen in the U.S., or at least the likelihood of it occurring would have been vastly reduced.