What is the difference between foster parents and surrogate parents?
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Foster parents are people who take care of *children* at some point. They are the child’s legal guardians but usually have no relationship to the child. They *might* have a relationship like aunt or cousin, but they might just be people assigned to take care of the child by social workers in the foster care system.
A surrogate mother is a woman who carries a fetus to term in her uterus with a legal contract that states she will give that child to a couple who will become that child’s legal parents on their birth certificate when born. Usually she is not genetically related to the fetus, but she might be genetically the mother. She has signed a contract with the child’s parents to carry the fetus.
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