I, Father: A Collaborative Biography and Case Study of a Landmark Surrogacy Case

By Paul Lonardo

How To Make a "Parentless" Child:1. Take an egg from one woman2. Add a sperm cell from one man 3. Combine the two reproductive cells in a test tube4. Insert the zygote into the uterus of a second woman to gestate5. Wait nine months then hand over the resultant infant to a third woman (our case study subject's then-wife), who had contracted the gestational surrogate, despite the fact that a second man (our case study subject) was in the process of divorcing her. Add to the equation the second man's past as an international drug-smuggler and convicted trafficker together with the reality that he did not want to become a parent.Now, who is the mother of the child? And who is the father? In the subsequent landmark case involving surrogacy rights, after a California Superior Court Judge ruled that this little girl had no legal parents, an appellate court declared that the ex-wife was the girl's legal mother and this book's case study was the father. For eighteen years, he made all of his court-ordered child support payments for a child he had never met. His legal obligation is now complete and this is his story of why he has never recognized this young life - who had been created by science and technology and driven by supply and maternal demand - as his daughter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512396834
• ISBN13: 9781512396836
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"