Surrogacy services is a wonderful thing since it really bring happiness to both the intended parents and the surrogate mother. The intended parents get a child they were longing for and the surrogate gets a substantial financial compensation for her services. The clinic involved in the entire program does the business in an organized manner. Since surrogacy services are not confined to geographical boundaries or localized within a region, issues relating to culture and language sometimes occur.

The world of surrogacy is identified by the following features:

• Often it is quite difficult to find egg donors, a reputed infertility treatment clinic, quality infertility specialist and a young healthy surrogate mother, all within a particular area.

• In search of a satisfactory infertility treatment, the intended parents may need to travel to another country where the cultural, social and linguistic scenario could be very different from that in their own country.

• The doctors and embryologists are educated and usually quite fluent in English and this will not pose any language barrier between the intended parents and the clinic. But what if the intended parents themselves are not comfortable with English?

• Surrogacy services are highly technical services, and the intended parents need to follow the instructions very carefully. Any communication gap in this area could lead to disastrous results. A two way interaction and communication is the only way to bridge this gap and language barrier would certainly increase it.

• It is quite likely a language barrier would arise in communication between the egg donor, the surrogate mother and the intended parents. It would be a mistake to assume all of them could be bound by a common language. In this situation, there might be serious difficulties in understanding the instructions and following them.

• Cultural differences between interactive groups in a fertility treatment could pose obstacles as well.

• In certain cultures surrogacy is a taboo. Earning money by lending your womb can be considered highly unethical. Intended parents coming from such cultural background have no other option than to travel to a country where surrogacy is supported to start their families.

• In a few countries, the local culture permits only unmarried women to serve as surrogates as because allowing married women in surrogacy would go against norms having high social values like kinship, status of the child born and the family of the surrogate would likely to get hurt. This poses an issue for the intended parents as their search for surrogate mothers would be limited to unmarried women only.

• Still, in certain other countries the social and cultural attitude towards surrogacy is quite the reverse. Here the surrogate mothers need to be either married or committed. The surrogate mothers should have at least one child of their own. This has both medical and psychological implications. Here again the search of the intending parents for surrogate mothers would be narrowed down to married or committed women only, limiting the options.