For Intended Parents
Agape Surrogacy Group welcomes intended parents across family structures, identities, ages, locations, and life circumstances. Whether you're a same-sex couple, LGBTQ+ intended parent, single parent, international family, older intended parent, navigating medical challenges, or building your family with donor-assisted reproduction, we're here to help you understand your options and move forward with care.
Who We Welcome
There is no single “typical” intended parent. Our goal is to understand your family, your history, your goals, and the kind of support you need rather than asking you to fit into one predefined path.
We welcome LGBTQ+ families and can help coordinate surrogacy journeys that may include donor eggs, donor sperm, embryo creation, reciprocal decision-making, and other family-building considerations specific to your goals.
Parenthood does not require a partner. We support qualified single intended parents who are ready to build a family through surrogacy and donor-assisted reproduction when needed.
Distance should not make your journey feel disconnected. Agape can assist with travel arrangements, lodging planning, local transportation, appointment coordination, virtual meetings, and birth-related logistics.
Some intended parents come to surrogacy after years of fertility treatment, life changes, later-in-life family planning, or because carrying a pregnancy is no longer medically advisable.
Surrogacy may be considered when pregnancy is medically contraindicated, after hysterectomy, recurrent pregnancy loss, certain health conditions, uterine-factor infertility, or other circumstances your medical team has identified.
Your journey may involve donor eggs, donor sperm, donated embryos, IVF, a gestational surrogate, a traditional surrogate, or another medically and legally appropriate combination of family-building options.
Travel & Logistics Support
For international and out-of-town intended parents, Agape can assist with the practical planning needed to participate in a U.S.-based surrogacy journey while living elsewhere.
International & Out-of-Town Families
You should not have to live near your surrogate, clinic, or Agape team to feel informed and supported. We can help organize the practical details around travel, virtual communication, appointment timing, local accommodations, and birth planning so you know what is happening and what comes next.
For international families, we can also help keep the journey organized around the additional professionals who may be involved in cross-border parentage and return-home planning.
Understanding Your Options
Most agencies only support and focus on Gestational Surrogacy. Agape believes that you should have as many options as possible to support your goals and budget and therefore, we support both pathways where they are legally permissible, medically appropriate, and accepted by the professionals involved. The right option depends on your medical, genetic, legal, financial, and personal circumstances.
An embryo is created through IVF using eggs and sperm from the intended parent(s), donor(s), or a combination, and is transferred to the gestational surrogate. This is the most common and safest option, but also the most expensive as more work is involved.
Traditional surrogacy creates a genetic relationship between the surrogate and the child. It may involve insemination rather than embryo transfer and requires especially careful legal, medical, psychological, and relationship planning. It's the least expensive route but carries more legal risk if the biological mother decided to change her mind. Traditional surrogacy is less common these days, and more importantly, traditional surrogates are much harder to come by.
Your Support Team
A surrogacy journey involves much more than finding someone willing to carry. Our role is to help create an organized, compassionate process around the people, professionals, milestones, and decisions involved.
The Intended Parent Journey
Every journey is different, but most intended parents move through planning, matching, screening, legal preparation, medical treatment, pregnancy, birth, and parentage milestones.
Talk through your goals, history, location, timing, preferred pathway, travel needs, and what you need from an agency.
Identify whether gestational or traditional surrogacy may fit and what clinic, donor, legal, or medical resources may be needed.
Review expected costs, timing of payments, insurance, compensation, travel, professional fees, donor services, and contingency reserves.
Explore surrogate profiles, discuss values and expectations, and move forward when both sides feel comfortable with the match.
Complete the applicable medical, psychological, background, legal, and other screening required by the professionals involved.
Finalize agreements, parentage planning, treatment plans, travel timing, and required funding before conception procedures proceed.
Stay connected through prenatal care, milestones, communication, reimbursements, travel planning, relationship support, and birth preparation.
Coordinate hospital planning, legal parentage steps, local stay, final expenses, newborn documentation, and return-home logistics where applicable.
Your Role in the Journey
The strongest journeys are built on preparation, respect, transparency, responsiveness, and realistic expectations from everyone involved.
Share your preferences, reproductive plans, family structure, travel needs, communication expectations, and concerns that may affect matching.
The surrogate remains the decision-maker regarding medical care performed on her body. Donors may wish to remain anonymous or receive regular updates. Expectations should be discussed before matching and documented appropriately.
Respond promptly to clinic, legal, psychological, donor, or agency requirements that apply to your journey.
Fund required accounts, compensation, reimbursements, professional fees, insurance, travel, and contingencies on the agreed schedule.
Respect boundaries, honor agreed communication rhythms, and approach disagreements with the dignity of everyone involved in mind.
Surrogacy is a medical and human journey. Timelines, treatment, pregnancy, insurance, travel, and legal needs can change.
Financial Planning
There is no single universal surrogacy price. Your total depends on pathway, medical needs, surrogate compensation, jurisdiction, insurance, donor services, travel, and whether additional treatment or contingencies arise.
Your personalized Cost Analysis should show both expected expenses and possible contingencies so you understand not only the headline number, but also when funds may be needed throughout the journey.
Want a deeper breakdown, financing options, and financial-planning resources? Visit the dedicated Agape Cost Analysis page.
Use Our Custom Cost Analysis CalculatorA Responsible Journey
Surrogacy works best when every participant has access to appropriate professional guidance and enters the arrangement with informed consent.
Intended parents and surrogates should receive appropriate legal advice, with separate representation where required or recommended, before medical conception procedures begin.
Fertility treatment, insemination, embryo transfer, prenatal care, and other medical decisions belong with qualified clinicians and the patient receiving care.
Screening, expectation-setting, counseling access, and clear communication help protect everyone involved in a highly personal journey.
Common Questions
Yes. Agape welcomes LGBTQ+ intended parents, including same-sex couples and single LGBTQ+ parents. Your reproductive, donor, clinic, legal, and matching plan should be built around your specific family-building goals.
Yes. We welcome single intended parents who are exploring an appropriate surrogacy pathway and are ready to complete the applicable medical, legal, financial, and matching process.
Yes, subject to the requirements of the specific journey. We can assist with travel and logistical planning, remote communication, appointments, lodging and local transportation planning, and coordination with the professional team. We can also refer International families to appropriate U.S. and home-country legal professionals for advice regarding parentage, citizenship, travel documentation, and return-home requirements.
Age alone does not tell the whole story. Medical clinics, attorneys, donor programs, surrogates, and other professionals may have their own requirements or recommendations. We can help you understand what questions to ask and what professionals should evaluate your specific circumstances.
Not at all. Some intended parents already have embryos, while others are still choosing a clinic, considering donor eggs or sperm, or deciding between gestational and traditional surrogacy. Your consultation can begin wherever you are in the planning process.
Agape's parent-friendly process is designed to let prospective intended parents explore available surrogate profiles before making a financial commitment to a specific match. Exact access and next-step requirements should be explained before you begin.
Yes. Agape supports traditional as well as gestational surrogacy where the arrangement is legally permissible, medically appropriate, and accepted by the professionals involved. Because traditional surrogacy is legally and ethically more complex, additional review may be necessary before a journey proceeds.
There is no guaranteed timeline. Matching, screening and scheduling, legal preparation, embryo creation or insemination, cycling, number of transfer or IUI attempts, pregnancy, parentage steps, and domestic/international travel or documentation needs can all affect the schedule. It can take, on average, as little as two to six months (from start to pregnancy) and twelve to eighteen months (from start to delivery). Still this range can vary based on several factors. Therefore, committment to the long-haul should be a priority before starting a journey like this.
No responsible agency can guarantee a pregnancy, treatment result, or live birth. Medical outcomes depend on factors that should be discussed with your fertility or medical team.
Ready to Explore Your Options?
Tell us a little about your family-building goals, where you live, whether you're considering gestational or traditional surrogacy, whether donor assistance may be part of your journey, and what kind of support you need. Completing the form is simply a first step and does not obligate you to move forward.