Growing Generations

Are you just starting your parenting journey? Your options are varied, and surrogacy has become a popular method for family-building.

Growing Generations provides the most important questions you should consider when searching for a surrogacy agency.

The company believes the questions below should be asked of any agency that you are considering.

• How long have they been in business?
• How many clients have they assisted?

Dr. Kim Bergman has created a psychological screening and support process for both surrogates and egg donors. She's founder of Fertility Counseling Services.

In his first post for the Growing Generations blog, CEO Stuart Miller proudly announces the birth of his son, Quentin Miller-Bell, who was born February 20th.

He also introduces his lesbian and gay partners at Growing Generations.

Gail Taylor is President and Founder and the mother of 2 children. Will Halm is the Chair and Co-founder, and a dad with 3 children. And Dr. Kim Bergman is Vice Chair and a licensed clinical psychologist. She's a mother with two daughters.

LoHud.com - the newspaper for New York's Lower Hudson Valley - profiles a family that's making a difference in the world.

Maurice Assouline, left, and Craig Sampson have three children, and live in Montebello, New York.

Assouline says, "When I saw what happened on September 11, I realized that I've got to bring into this world people that hopefully will be decent human beings, to balance all the evil that's out there. We started right after that to pick surrogates."

The relationship between two men and Anne took place between Oregon and New York. Here she answers our questions about surrogacy - and offers insight about her inspirational path as a surrogate.

PP: The growth of the Internet has helped many women learn about surrogacy, but before it existed, most information was found in libraries, through friends, or friends-of-friends. When and how did you first learn about surrogacy?

It only took us a couple of months to get connected with our surrogate, then before we knew it we were pregnant - first try.

Growing Generations has been helping gay men and lesbians through surrogacy, egg donation, and sperm donation since 1996.