ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on monetary investments—how the costs associated with surrogacy add up, with clinics offering price lists, cost breakdowns, formal contracts, and schedules of reimbursements. It shows most clearly men’s paternal investments in children. Surrogates make substantial investments, even though their own self-reflexive accounts are rarely foregrounded in the surrogacy literature. For surrogates, producing other people’s families is a morally meaningful act, often done as a labour of love and care for a couple who cannot otherwise have children. The book provides the empirical scaffolding to account for why people make particular reproductive and parenting decisions and what the consequences might be.
