Originally posted by: Walden
Pari, I partly agree to what you stated. Yes, human emotions cannot always be controlled to that extent and like I said, having never personally spoken to a surrogate, I can't comment on what the experience is like...anyway, I'm going to quote what I found on the wiki page..
credit: Wikipedia topic on surrogacy
"A study by the Family and Child Psychology Research Centre at City University, London, UK in 2002 concluded that surrogate mothers rarely had difficulty relinquishing rights to a surrogate child and that the intended mothers showed greater warmth to the child than mothers conceiving naturally.[11]
Anthropological studies of surrogates have shown that surrogates engage in various distancing techniques throughout the surrogate pregnancy so as to ensure that they do not become emotionally attached to the baby.[12][13] Many surrogates intentionally try to foster the development of emotional attachment between the intended mother and the surrogate child.[14]
Surrogates are generally encouraged by the agency they go through to become emotionally detached from the fetus prior to giving birth.[15]
Instead of the popular expectation that surrogates feel traumatized after relinquishment, an overwhelming majority describe feeling empowered by their surrogacy experience.[13][16]
A 2011 study from the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge found that surrogacy does not have a negative impact on the surrogate's own children.[17]"