...time to determine the fitness of the Sterns as custodial parents, of Mrs. Stern as un adoptive parent, or the effect on the child of not living with her...prohibition of the payment of money in connection with adoption exists here." — From the decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court invalidating the Baby...

...possible to know in advance what are the best interests of the child.41 The court concluded that "(tjhis is the sale of a child, or, at the very least, the...mitigating factor being that one of the purchasers is the father."42 According to the court, the role of money in inducing women to enter into surrogacy contracts...

...Whitehead, or the effects on the child of not living with its natural mother." They conclude severely: "This is the sale of a child, or, at the very least,...factor being that one of the purchasers is the father." So the father here is "buying his own child" the court said; he is paying money to obtain exclusive...

...will be made at any time to determine the fitness of the Sterns as custodial parents, of Mrs. Ster n as an adoptive parent, their superiority to Mrs. Whitehead,...father. Almost every evil that prompted the prohibition on the payment of money in connection with adoptions exists here. The differences between an adoption...

...than totally voluntary. Her interests are of little concern to those who controlled this transaction. Worst of all, however, is the contract's total disregard...father. Almost every evil that prompted the prohibition on the payment of money in connection with adoptions exists here. The differences between an adoption...

...mother illegal, perhaps criminal, and potentially degrading to women." The payment, it said, was for the "the sale of a child or, at the very least, the sale...factor being that one of the purchasers is the father." The surrogacy agreement assumed that an agreement on adoption could be made prior to birth, "even prior...

...as an adoptive parent, their superiority to Mrs. Whitehead, or the effect on the child of not Ihing with her natural mother. This is the sale of a child,...father. Almost every evil that prompted the prohibition on the payment of money in connection with adoptions exists here. The differences between an adoption...

...contracts could be highly exploitive of surrogate mothers like Mrs. Whitehead. Said the court, in part: "This is the sale of a child, or at the very least, the sale of a mother's right to her child... ," 17 Predictably, feminists do not agree on this charge of exploitation. Shalev, for one, has criticized...

...with public policy concerning families and the formation of contracts. For example, the court said, 'This is the sale of a child, or, at the very least, the sale of a mother's right to her child,'86 which New Jersey law prohibited. The court then treated the case as a child-custody dispute...

...of words to the material exchange of a body. "This [case is about] the sale of a child," he wrote, "or, at the very least the sale of a mother's right to her child" (1248). "The evils inherent in baby-bartering are loathsome . . . The child is sold without regard...