Tag: Surrogacy
While Growing Families has been running Surrogacy seminars in Auckland and sometimes Wellington for many years, 2024 marks the first time this has been expanded to a full information day, run by a local committee of surrogates and parents.
The weekend of 16 March is a chance for the country’s...
Ahead of New Zealand’s annual surrogacy event on 10 June, Sam Everingham talked to two leading voices in New Zealand’s surrogacy space: Christian Newman and Stewart Dalley. Stewart is an Auckland-based surrogacy lawyer and Christian is the founder of Love Makes a Family. Both are dads via domestic surrogacy.
Christian...
Emma Williams first became involved in New Zealand’s surrogacy community in 2014, though it was not until 2017 that she matched with her intended parents. She carried twice for a gay couple, birthing Yavi and, a few years later, Yana. Both times, she benefitted from the expertise of not...
Former TVNZ reporter Arrun Soma is the co-founder of Indian Origin Pride NZ, an organisation helping support communities dealing with the intersectionality of their rainbow and ethnic identities. He speaks to express about his inspiration, marriage and surrogacy journey.
Tell us how you personally become involved in Indian Origin Pride...
Growing Families have half-day face-to-face seminars coming up next month in both Auckland (11 June) and Wellington (12 June) for those looking at creating a family.
Whether you are looking at local surrogacy in NZ or offshore arrangements in countries like the US or Canada, the level of trust inherent in these journeys demands not...
The commission’s proposed changes would make it easier for same-sex couples amongst others to adopt. Make your submission here!
The New Zealand Law Commission has released a proposed legal framework to provide legal recognition for the parents of surrogate-born children. The review was requested by the Government last July.
The...
In the lead-up to the Growing Families New Zealand Seminar in Auckland, Sam Everingham profiles one rainbow family.
When my husband and I were going through the surrogacy process over ten years ago, nearly everyone ventured offshore to locate a donor and surrogate. These days a lot more are working with a...
Next month, non-profit educator Families Through Surrogacy (FTS) returns to Auckland with its popular seminar series covering egg donation and surrogacy options for those requiring help creating family.
With gay men making up over half of those needing egg donors and surrogates, FTS have scheduled the family building seminar to...
