What is SurroStudy?
SurroStudy is a surrogacy-specific evaluation designed for intended parents and surrogacy participants. Unlike traditional adoption home studies, our evaluations focus specifically on factors relevant to surrogacy arrangements.
What is a SurroStudy or a Surrogacy Home Evaluation?
Why SurroStudy exists
- The gap
Internal assessments by agencies or clinics can result in inconsistent standards, variable documentation, and systems shaped by partiality. This can create friction for clinics, attorneys, intended parents, and regulators. Without an independent, surrogacy-specific evaluation, important decisions are harder to support across jurisdictions.
- Our solution
SurroStudy bridges this gap by providing fully independent, experienced social worker home evaluations that are specifically designed for surrogacy, not adoption or placement. We use standardized report templates, jurisdiction-aware documentation, and licensed social-work expertise to produce clear, actionable findings.
The result is objective documentation you can trust and use across medical, legal, and agency workflows.
How SurroStudy Differs from Traditional Home Evaluations
- Purpose
- Traditional: Often placement and long-term family formation oriented
- SurroStudy: Designed to assess readiness and situational factors specifically relevant to surrogacy arrangements
- Scope
- Traditional: Broad family assessments that address adoption criteria
- SurroStudy: Targeted review of housing, support systems, stability, background checks, and other relevant items
- Who conducts the evaluation
- Traditional: Mixed providers, depending on jurisdiction
- SurroStudy: Licensed social-work professionals with surrogacy experience
- Testing
- Traditional: May include broader diagnostic assessments where required
- SurroStudy: Does not perform clinical diagnostic testing; we produce objective, observational findings
- Independence & use
- Traditional: May be conducted by providers with mixed incentives
- SurroStudy: Always independent
Who Conducts these Home Evaluations
Our evaluations are carried out by experienced, licensed social workers who specialize in surrogacy-related casework. Each evaluator brings formal social work credentials, practical experience with assisted reproduction cases and training in the SurroStudy assessment model to produce clear, reliable reports.
How Reports are Used
SurroStudy reports are purpose-built documents that translate a structured social work review into usable information for the people and organizations managing a surrogacy case. Reports are delivered securely and only to authorized recipients.