surrogate
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The singer welcomed her third child with her husband, Daryl Sabara, via surrogate in January.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
"It's a sacred position to be someone's parent and I feel like their surrogate dad - I am their DIY dad, and that is a privilege."
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
So being a single father by choice is a rarer phenomenon, and doing so via gestational surrogacy, in which the surrogate mother bears no genetic link to the child she carries, is rarer yet.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
Wasserman found a surrogate father in his grandfather Lew, who would leave his company’s office early to make Little League games and take him to Nate ’n Al’s diner on weekends.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026
They had been advertising for months—discreetly, Madeline added—for a surrogate with the right characteristics, and had found no one.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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