Peer Response (1)

(1)Ken

 [Comment 1]

It might have some problems to use surrogate mothers. In my point of view, because it is the surrogate mother who gives birth to the child, just weird.

 [My response 1] 

Although it's the surrogate mothers who give birth to the child, the genes are still yours and your wife's, so I think it's not strange to have a child through this way.

 [Comment 2] 

What about the surrogate mothers? Because maybe she may has some emotional connections to the baby, even when she is pregnant.

 [My response 2] 

Yes, this is the negative views, and I will talk about it next. But I think although it is really a problem, those women who will take the surrogate mothers as their career, they may have the minds or preparations to overcome it. If they don't, they may not choose to be the surrogate mothers.

(2)Dr. Mei-Ya Liang

 [Comment 1] 

Mothers can be defined by birth and also can be defined by career, so can you talk a little bit about the different definitions about motherhood?

 [My response 1]

I think those women who take the surrogate mothers as career are something like we work for our normal jobs, we don't have

strong emotional or intimate connections or feelings to the results we work out, we just take the jobs in order to afford ourselves. Moreover, the children even do not have strong biological connections to the surrogate mothers besides the children are growing up in their wombs. On the other hand, I think to be a "mother" is different. The children's genes are ourselves, that is the children have intimate connections to us. We always treasure those who have strong feelings or intimate connections to us, thus I think this kind of relationship between mothers and children is more inseparable.

 [Comment 2] 

And, also about the adoption, because the related phenomenon is adoption.

 [My response 2]

But I think the adopted children and the genetic children are totally different. Because I think the adopted children do not have biological connection to the parents. For some people's concerned, this is an important point to them. However, there are some people do not care about it, thus it's decided individually.

 [Comment 3]

We have some debates between relative importance between nature and culture. So, you are who you are because of what? What make you a good person or what make you a educated person?

 [My response 3]

I think our personalities are defined by ourselves and influenced by many environmental and cultural reasons. Thus, we are ourselves because we want to be like that, it has little connection

to nature. The nature just defined our gender, not our personalities and values.

(3)Tim

[Comment]

So, what's wrong with surrogacy? And, who is against them?

[My response]

 Because being a surrogate mother may do harm to their health. It's dangerous to be a surrogate mother. I will find more reliable resources to explain about it.

(4)Vivian

 [Comment]

I'm just wondering if mothers who do not give birth to their own children, do they have strong relationship to their own children?

 [My response]

It's a thoughtful point to me, I haven't thought about it before. You give me a good idea to extent to the context of my paper, thank you. I think, you're right, mothers may not have strong connection to the children because they don't experience the process of bearing the children, including the pain and the morning sickness, and they even don't know the feeling of the quickening of the womb, thus as you mentioned, they may have no strong relationship to their own children. And, that's the disadvantage of using the surrogate mothers.