This comprehensive book covers the context of research, theory, politics, and practice of unusual cloning using third parties. Olga Van Den Akker explains the details of the psychological adjustment required to sustain changes in public opinion and advances in new techniques and legislation in alternative motherhood and discuss their impact on the individual, societal and global levels.

It describes competing interests and interactions between legal, organizational, personal, social, psychological and cultural issues with regard to biological and genetic alternatives and parenting. This book is intended for professionals, practitioners, academics and students interested in the complexities of extraordinary cloning using multidisciplinary perspectives..