title: The other mother: K. provided the eggs, her lover the womb, and for nearly six years the two women raised the twin girls thus conceived. But when the women broke up, K. learned how fragile the definition of motherhood could be.
authors.forename: Peggy
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Orenstein
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D002648:Child; D002655:Child Custody / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D032962:Consent Forms; D004243:Divorce / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers; D018587:Oocyte Donation; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States