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The couple opened up in a recent interview withThe Telegraphabout their new lives as dads to sonRobert “Robbie” Ray, who arrived June 27 via surrogate, and how neither knows which of them is his biological father.
“I don’t think we’ll ever hide anything from him, in fact I know we won’t,” Oscar-winning screenwriter Black, 44, chimed in. “That’s not just our instincts, that’s listening to the advicefrom people born of surrogacy. They say, ‘The things that bothered me are the things I wasn’t told. The things I was told don’t bother me.’ ”
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“Right now it’s like the Wild West in the U.K.,” Daley explains. “In the States, there is a legal framework — you are not allowed to do it if you need the money. The surrogate is better protected as well as the intended parents. It’s just safer for everyone.”
Now, they have an extremely close relationship with their surrogate, they tell the U.K. outlet. “She becomes such a massive part of your life for those nine months,” says the Olympic diver. “You’re only matched withpeople who have the same desire. Some don’t want to have long-term relationships [with the parents].”
Continues Daley, “We talk to ours all the time. This is a very familial process.”
“My dad taught me so many lessons and there’s something really special about passing them on to our little son,” he says. “The things that I used to find incredibly embarrassing about how he used to act have taught me not to care what anyone else thinks. I know that our family isbuilt around infinite amounts of love.”
source: people.com
