A Child's Fees: Surrogacy, an alternative to child adoption (Episode 272 on 19 July 2013)

Chanda (played by Neena Singh) belong to a lower class family in Mumbai who works as a maid in several homes. His husband (played by Chandresh Singh) is a factory worker and their monthly income is not more that ten thousand. The couple has 2 kids. Their economic condition is not strong even Chanda is conscious about her kids and their schooling is running in a very big school. The couple is hard to pay fees of their child and the fees is becoming over due.

School administration warns her to pay fee on time otherwise they can terminate their kids schooling. Chanda starts over work also asks for big amount near 40,000 rupee to the people where she works. His husband is also trying to arrange money but they get disappointed. Finally Nakul is dismissed from the school.

Chanda does not want her kids will suffer throughout the life as she suffer during her childhood. During her childhood she was willing to get literate but because of her family condition, her parents didn't carried her study.

One of lady where Chanda works, tell her a way to earn money. She sends Chanda to a Doctor and doctor describes her about surrogacy.

What is Surrogacy?
The Surrogacy came from a latin word Subrogate which means to appoint someone for our work.

Today's time which couple do not want to have their own children but due to some bad circumstances some women are deprived to have a baby in their womb. Their may be several reasons of this like infection in uterus, hysterectomy, diabetes, cancer, etc. But through surrogacy, a couple can arrange another lady to keep their baby in her womb. Surrogacy has become a great medical treatment for such kind of cases. There are two types of surrogacies:

1. Traditional surrogacy
This involves artificially inseminating a healthy surrogate mother with the male sperm. In this method, the child is genetically related to the sperm donor i.e. father and the surrogate mother.

2. Gestational surrogacy
When the intended mother is productive but is not able to carry a baby to term due to hysterectomy, diabetes, cancer, etc, her egg and the intended father's sperm are used to create an embryo (initial fetus). The embryo is transferred into and carried by the surrogate mother. The resulting child is genetically related to its parents while the surrogate mother has no genetic relation.