Artificial Children?

[Thumpalumpacus]

This may be an issue of concern.

Others have stated it removes the bond between a mother and her child.

I didn't carry my son to term; his mother did.  But I shared wake-up/feeding/diaper duties with her.  I don't know about maternal bonding, but I know that I bonded with my son at oh-dark-thirty while I was half-asleep with MTV on in the background and the little knucklehead was just happy to be  alive.  We had some good nights together, the he can't remember but I do with pleasure.

I remember one Sunday morning waking up to hear him on the baby monitor. He was repeating two syllables, over and over: "Dah-dee.  Dah-dee. Dah-dee." Clearly practicing.  And so I got up and went to his room, asking, "Did someone call for Dah-dee?" We both started laughing.

I'm not sure that hormones bind as tightly as emotions.