She's not having the child herself. She's hired a surrogate who supposedly resembles her son's type, thinking the child will look like a traditional grandchild would look. But, surrogate.
There is too much wrong with this to keep track of:
1. The dead man will not be there for the child, so it is bizarre to say that it fulfills his wish to be a father.
2. The child will forever be without his father. I hope that a father figure emerges somewhere in his or her life.
3. If it is by surrogacy, the child will be, I'm guessing, without a mother throughout his or her life.
4. The mother is psychologically unhinged and is trying to replace her son, I imagine. She needs therapy, not a court ruling that supports her grief-triggered insanity.
Imagine if the son was alive, but didn't want children. Yet, he 'donated' his sperm to his mother so she could create the grandchildren she always wanted. In which these he had no legal obligation to them, and the surrogate/egg donor had no legal obligation financially or socially.
The grandmother is divorced, so these children don't even get a grandfather.
July 6, 2011 at 6:08 am
She's not having the child herself. She's hired a surrogate who supposedly resembles her son's type, thinking the child will look like a traditional grandchild would look. But, surrogate.
July 6, 2011 at 6:31 am
There is too much wrong with this to keep track of:
1. The dead man will not be there for the child, so it is bizarre to say that it fulfills his wish to be a father.
2. The child will forever be without his father. I hope that a father figure emerges somewhere in his or her life.
3. If it is by surrogacy, the child will be, I'm guessing, without a mother throughout his or her life.
4. The mother is psychologically unhinged and is trying to replace her son, I imagine. She needs therapy, not a court ruling that supports her grief-triggered insanity.
July 6, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Isn't this like buying grandchildren?
Imagine if the son was alive, but didn't want children. Yet, he 'donated' his sperm to his mother so she could create the grandchildren she always wanted. In which these he had no legal obligation to them, and the surrogate/egg donor had no legal obligation financially or socially.
The grandmother is divorced, so these children don't even get a grandfather.
July 6, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Matthew,
I agree. Terrible. However, it IS a surrogate, according to the news accounts I can find.
July 6, 2011 at 6:00 pm
This is every kind of wrong. Just awful.
July 7, 2011 at 6:09 pm
I would not let her raise my dog–she sounds too unbalanced.