Domestic workers often spend more time with their employers than they do with their own families, and the people for whom Gomez worked became like a surrogate family, he said.

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One of them became a surrogate parent after his own father abandoned the family.

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From Arizona, over the Internet, the couple picked a potential surrogate and a backup surrogate, just in case, from photos and information such as educational background and family medical history provided by Surrogacy India on a special secure Web site.

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