Child Advocates Say Men Using Surrogacy to Become Single Dads Is ‘Unthinkably Cruel’

An increasing number of single men are procuring surrogacy services to have children for themselves, with no mother in the picture whatsoever.

NBC’s “Today” show and The Chicago Tribune both reported last week separate stories of single men who wanted children but for various reasons never got married.

“Four years from 50, I thought I would never have a family,” said 48-year old CEO Tom Garden in an interview with “Today.”

“I had been married to my business for 10 years so I was really never thinking about kids and I didn’t have time to date or do anything else.”

Being Jewish, he deliberately sought out an Israeli egg donor and then selected a surrogate. Using his sperm and the Israeli donor egg plus the surrogate mother, who is referred to in the article as a “gestational carrier,” his first child, a son, was born in June 2016. His second child, a daughter, also through the use of a surrogate, was born in March.

Similarly, Bill Guest, 40, of the Chicago suburb Villa Park, explained to the Tribune that he wanted a baby and “wanted to experience all of the stages of life” of the child. His friends were all having kids “and suddenly being a doting uncle wasn’t enough.” Guest was not interested in marriage nor interested in older kids; he had tried to adopt through the foster system but the only available children were 6 or 7 years of age.

He wound up on a website called Men Having Babies, a nonprofit groups that helps homosexual men become fathers. Guest successfully applied for financial assistance — surrogacy services can cost as much or more than $100,000, the article notes — and is…