More and more pairs of pensioners are seeking to become parents through a surrogate mother.

For example, a 68 -year -old actress used the sperm of her son’s dead to acquire a grandchild through a surrogate mother. At the same time, in Britain, a couple 72 -year -old They became parents of a boyAlso from a surrogate mother, although the judge expressed her concerns that they may die before the child adults.

The couple applied to the court for parental editing – which eventually took – after the baby was born to a surrogate mother in California six months before the use of a sperm of his spouse and an egg donor.

The wealthy couple, according to the Daily Mail, decided he wanted to they become parents againafter their 27 -year -old son died of cancer in 2020. In the autumn of 2022 they found donors and at the beginning of 2023 they found a surrogate mother through an agency in California. The baby boy was born in January last year.

The couple elderly were in the US, where the baby was born and returned to the United Kingdom in March 2024, with an American passport for the baby, named parents.

They paid about 151,000 pounds in the surrogate mother and agencywhile through their covenant they said that if they die or are unable to take care of the child, a couple, friends of their deceased son, they will become their legal guardians. The couple also takes care of the child with the help of a full -time nanny.

There is no age limit For so -called prospective parents in the UK of surrogate motherhood and activists condemn the tendency of the elderly to have children through surrogate mothers.

Lexi Ellingsworth, co -founder of the Stop Surrogacy Now UK, said this case demonstrates the “weaknesses” of the current law on the UK of surrogate motherhood. She added: ‘No age limits in the UK and BPEtgans can go abroad to buy babies“

According to the Daily Mail, within a year, this was the Third Case that arrived in the courts and parental care was given to British prospective parents 60 and 70 years old For children born to surrogate mothers abroad.

The most well -known story is her Spanish Ana obregón that was done Mother at 68 via surrogate mother. She used the frozen sperm of her dead son, so her granddaughter came to life.

At the same time, it is becoming more and more common to become parents after their 50s and famoussuch as Naomi Campbell and American presenter Andy Cohen.

According to the British media in 2024, almost 300 men over 50 years of age have applied to become legal fathers of surrogate children over the last five years. And 44 of them are over 60 years old.

Thus a growing trend is observed Men to have children in older Age and especially through surrogate mothers.

Ever since the law changed in 2019 and gives bachelors the same rights as a couple to have a child through surrogate, they have been submitted 2.162 Applications In England.