A foreign same-sex couple has vowed not to leave Thailand without their daughter after a local surrogate mother rescinded permission for them to take the baby she gave birth to…

The spate of cases raises questions about the legal rights a child born to an overseas surrogate has in Australia, and what rights Australians who engage in surrogacy agreements have in Thailand and other countries..

The Attorney-General, George Brandis, has released the Family Law Council’s report on Parentage and the Family Law Act, which calls for a coordinated international response to the issue of overseas surrogacy arrangements…

The commercial surrogacy laws in essentially all Australian states and territories have been criticised far and wide. Implemented to prevent the commercialisation and ultimately exploitation of people involved in the practice, all it seems to have achieved is drive people under-ground, and forced many Australians to seek overseas, that which they have been denied access to in Australia…

Let’s hope that unlike the Family Court, the Department for Child Protection can protect both these children without resorting bizarre ideologies on child welfare that can ultimately forget that children are also part of families…

A MELBOURNE sperm donor dad has been granted access to his daughter despite the objections of her lesbian parents to his youthful partying ways. The man had been seeking shared custody of his two-year-old biological daughter that would have seen her living with him five nights a fortnight…

A sharp rise in Australian children born in India shows laws criminalising commercial surrogacy are doing nothing to stop parents going overseas to find birth mothers for their children, surrogacy advocates say…

A same-sex couple who hired an illiterate Indian woman to be the surrogate mother of their twins was ordered by a judge to return to India to prove she had not been exploited…

Two gay dads have become the first in Australia to have started a family via overseas surrogacy and successfully gained full parental rights…

Changes to commercial surrogacy arrangements in India, introduced just before Christmas, have cut off one of the more popular avenues for Australians wanting to become surrogate parents…