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co-maternities

co-maternities is the plural of co-maternity.

Meaning of co-maternity

Noun

co-maternity (countable and uncountable, plural co-maternities)

  1. The state of being a co-mother; a mother to a child carried by another partner through reciprocal IVF (in vitro fertilization where one female partner supplies the ovum and the other carries the pregnancy).
    • Developments in jurisprudence and legislation thus suggest a growing openness to identifying a birth mother and her same-sex partner as a child’s ‘natural’ or ‘original’ parents whether that child has been conceived through assisted reproduction. But the idea of co-maternity still seems limited and...2007 January 13, Angela Campbell, “Conceiving Parents Through Law”, in International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, volume 21, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 256

Questions about co-maternities

What is co-maternities the plural of?
Co-maternities is the plural of co-maternity.

Words near co-maternities in the dictionary

  1. co-locating
  2. co-location
  3. co-locations
  4. co-manager
  5. co-managers
  6. co-maternities
  7. co-maternity
  8. co-meddled
  9. co-mingle
  10. co-mingled
  11. co-mingles

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