Study does not show surrogacy causes depression

I refer to the letter “Surrogacy not in best interests of children” (Aug 16).

The writer asserts that a study published last year by the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, showed that surrogate children are more likely to be depressed and have adjustment problems, which may cause antisocial behaviour.

In the study, titled Families Created By Reproductive Donation: Issues And Research, and even in the abstract, the professor who led the research indicated that surrogate families are not likely to be “at risk for parenting or child-adjustment problems”.

The overall findings suggest that surrogacy “does not have an adverse effect on the quality of parent-child relationships or children’s adjustment”.