Surrogacy and adoption can be for anyone; they can be single or married, same-sex or opposite-sex couples. Most of my surrogate and adoption clients come to me through referrals, either from a doctor or other people who have used my services.
With married opposite-sex couples, they’ve usually had several miscarriages or failures with in-vitro. Sometimes they already know they can’t have children because of a medical reason, like the wife having had cancer. This is when I typically meet the family.
People looking to adopt come to me because they want a child, but they may not be able to afford the expensive assisted reproduction process of surrogacy. Or they want to adopt because they have always had it in their heart to take in a child that’s already here.
Women who become surrogate mothers are not struggling. These are stable women. They are nurses, teachers, and stay-at-home moms with bachelors’ degrees; women who have had a good pregnancy experience and have a secure life. Their number one reason for becoming a surrogate is to help someone else have a child.