Greetings!
One thing i have to know about life is that, this life is all about agreements and deals and if there's an agreement or a deal in place, the parties involved must as a matter of fact honor the agreement in place.
Having said this, I would like to talk about the prompt topic before me which is about, “surrogacy rights.”
The word surrogacy which is from surrogate is meant to be substituted and in the context of this prompt, it's about a mother giving birth to a child and hands the child to the so called prospective parents which might have been agreed on in the process of agreeing to do surrogacy.
So, if there's an agreement in place and a mother gave birth to child, I personally don't see any reason for the one who gave birth to the child to stay behind, in fact, she should be paid off and asked to leave and not move close to the child any longer because a deal has been put in place.
The only thing that i think can make such a mother to stay behind is when the couples refuse to meet their own end of the deal, but in as much as they were able to meet their own end of the deal, then the woman should not even think of staying behind, she should rather leave the child and his or her so called parents alone to enjoy themselves.
Although, I have not heard of such occurrence before when the surrogate mother would stay behind and try to meddle in the affair of the child, but if there's any one like that, she should be dealt with.
The reason I'm not in support of this act of the mother staying behind is that, there's no way she would stay behind without her meddling in the affair of the child and by extension the family of the couple who hired her to come and birth a baby for them thereby causing them discomfort and even the baby would be confused who he or she should recognize as a mother there making the woman that hire her to birth her a baby a barren woman after she had paid for the service the surrogate mother had offered.
Another angle is that of the surrogate mother trying to lay claim to the child after many years of her being paid off by the family. So, bringing her close to the child or she staying behind can be so disastrous to the motive of the planned surrogacy.
So, for me as a person, once an agreement has been reached and both parties at the end meet and honor their own end of the deal or agreement, then the surrogate mother should leave and the family should continue enjoying what they have paid for without any interference from the mother that gave birth to the child.
Furthermore, my advice to the couple that hired the surrogate mother is to dispatch her immediately after her service to her and if possible they should move away from where they can be traced to by the surrogate mother.
This is my entry to the week 194, Edition 03 of the weekly Featured contest in the Hive Learners community.
Thanks for reading.
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