File photo: Getty ImagesFamilies with surrogate babies being born overseas are struggling to collect them because of international border restrictions and pandemic turmoil. A surrogacy expert says after years of struggling to have children, it is devastating for parents to not be at their babies' births. But the Family Court has now streamlined the process to allow surrogate babies to be adopted overseas and arrive on New Zealand passports. Babies sometimes stay at surrogacy clinics so the surrogate can go home to her own family - and in extreme cases babies have ended up in orphanages, she added. To speed up the process for New Zealand parents, Family Court judges and a surrogacy lawyer have written up a new protocol.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 07, 2020 23:37 UTC