co-maternity
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state of being a co-mother; a mother to a child carried by another partner through reciprocal IVF (in vitro fertilization where one female partner supplies the ovum and the other carries the pregnancy).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Developments in jurisprudence and legislation thus suggest a growing openness to identifying a birth mother and her same-sex partner as a child’s ‘natural’ or ‘original’ parents whether that child has been conceived through assisted reproduction. But the idea of co-maternity still seems limited and tenuous."
- "Utvalget har vurdert hvilke regler som bør gjelde ved fastsettelse av farskap, morskap og medmorskap for barn som er født som et resultat av assistert befruktning i utlandet."
- "The legal issues for those pursuing co-maternity or egg-sharing are no less complex. Recent cases have shown the need for competent legal representation from the very earliest stages of the family-formation process."
- "In the case of a woman who gives birth while married to a trans woman, the co-maternity arrangement adopted by Norway and a few other countries for the case of same sex couples seem to work well enough."
- "Farskap eller medmorskap fastsatt i utlandet kan bli anerkjent i Norge."
Etymology
From co- + maternity.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: co