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16
Sep
2026

British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2026

On 15 September 2026 Louisa Ghevaert joined a panel of expert speakers and delivered a surrogacy law update as part of the British Fertility Society's Creating Modern Families Day 2026. This annual training event formed part of the British Fertility Society's flagship in person Study Week. It offered latest insights and training for fertility clinicians and professionals across a range of family building options including donor sperm pathways, egg donation in practice, trans-inclusive fertility care, surrogacy, co-parenting, cross-border fertility care as well as sessions on counselling, patient voices and legal issues.

03
Sep
2026

Surge in Single Men Over 40 Pursuing Fatherhood Through Surrogacy

Louisa Ghevaert was quoted in The Times today discussing recent data on surrogacy released by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass). The article “Surge in single men over 40 pursuing fatherhood through surrogacy” reports increasing trends in single men, gay men and heterosexual couples having surrogate babies. The article reports that between 2019 and 2025 170 single men made applications for parental orders for their surrogate born child.

19
Jun
2026

Resolution’s Modern Families Forum 2026

Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to attend Resolution's Modern Families Forum 2026 on 18 June 2026. There was a fantastic line up of speakers covering single parenthood and co-parenting, modern family case law update and legal aspects of trans parenting and representation of young people. There was also important insight from a panel who gave lived experience of platonic co-parenting, polyamorous families and trans parents.

27
May
2026

Rapid Rise in Parents Using Nigerian Surrogate Mothers

Louisa Ghevaert featured in The Times on 26 May 2026 discussing the rapid rise in parents from England using Nigerian surrogate mothers. This follows the latest parental order figures disclosed by The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) which show Nigeria is the second most popular surrogacy destination after the US. Previously, Georgia and Ukraine were the second and third most popular international surrogacy destinations for intended parents from England.

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