Family fortunes

I WAS shocked by the story of Jacky Edwards, who wanted a baby so much, she allowed her daughter to carry her surrogate baby (Mail).

Jacky talked a lot about love, but her actions have the hallmark of selfishness. Pregnancy and childbirth are not without risk, yet she allowed her daughter, who had two young children of her own, to be exposed to this danger.

Apart from the physical toll, who knows what future psychological damage there might be?

Already a mother of five, Jacky has not been shortchanged in the maternal stakes. To say a baby would cement her relationship with her second husband is immature and naive. Very often, a baby is not the glue that binds a relationship, but the test that breaks it.

The mind boggles to think of the complex relationships that baby Caspian will have to deal with.

Jacky is his mother and grandmother, her husband is his father. His sister is his biological mother, while her children are his half-siblings as well as his nieces and nephews. What kind of love is this to

put such heavy baggage on young shoulders? LORRAINE WYLIE, Bangor, Co. Down.