WGBH features Circle Surrogacy couple, surrogate and president in television report
WGBH, Boston's public broadcasting station, recently aired a story about Circle Surrogacy clients, the Andersons, who they describe as part of a growing number of male gay couples who chose surrogacy to become parents. John Weltman, CS's president, states in an interview for the
show that while only "4-10% of the gay population that's having children today is doing it through surrogacy", the numbers are growing enormously.
When he started Circle Surrogacy a decade ago, says Weltman, about 40 percent of his clientele was gay. Today it's closer to 80 percent. Among his clients are numerous Europeans, as well as couples and singles from countries such as Israel, Australia and even Dubai.
As gay men, Frank and Michael Anderson were limited in their options when they decided to have a child. They initially considered adoption, but decided it wasn't for them. "It felt like a crap shoot in a lot of ways when we looked into it," Michael says. "You get sort of profiled and then the adoptive mother chooses you from a range of couples and it just felt like we wanted it to happen, you know, more securely than that."
The Andersons are part of a growing number of male gay couples who have decided that surrogacy was a better option.
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Originally broadcast October 25, 2006
WGBH, Boston's public broadcasting station, recently aired a story about Circle Surrogacy clients, the Andersons, who they describe as part of a growing number of male gay couples who chose surrogacy to become parents. John Weltman, CS's president, states in an interview for the
show that while only "4-10% of the gay population that's having children today is doing it through surrogacy", the numbers are growing enormously.
