ABSTRACT
This chapter describes that the brave new baby, whether created in vitro by embryo transfer or by a surrogate mother, feel the same sense of alienation and bewilderment upon learning the unnatural ways she or he came into the world. Society would be wise to ponder the psychology of the adopted in order to gain some insights into what the psychological makeup of the brave new baby might be. Whatever combinations of reproduction and parenting it makes, chapter should relinquish the secrecy that has been the scourge of the adoption system. The typical birth mother who gives her child for adoption is young, unmarried, and pressured by her family to give up the baby. Studies show that these women often suffer from depression for the rest of their lives. Better interview techniques have been suggested to insure that only those women who can easily give up a child be selected.
