Renting a Womb

To save themselves the headache that sometimes comes with marriage and relationships, single men who want children are now paying surrogate mothers hefty amounts of money to carry their babies and then cede their maternal rights once the child is born. ALLAN OLINGO explores the issue

In mid-July last year, international football star and Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo paid a surrogate mother to have his son. According to a Portuguese newspaper, Diario de Noticias, the surrogate in San Diego, where Ronaldo was on holiday, conceived, and after giving birth, handed over the baby to the footballer.