That experience was captured in "Unplanned Parenthood: The Confessions of a Seventy-something Surrogate Mother," a book Ms. Carpenter wrote in 1994.
This strange, bloody and yet unusually funny film is the story of beaten-down 50-something Bobcat-surrogate Frank.
He acted as something of a surrogate father to Marley during this period, even giving him a place to live on the premises.
As a policeman he was a mentor to Carver, whose newfound maturity means he now joins Cutty as something of a surrogate father on the streets.
Apart from the French royal line, there is the House of Grimaldi, which serves as something of a surrogate royal family in France.
Mr. Traoré never met his daughter, Djenebou, a quiet 17-year-old who now looks after her brothers as something of a surrogate parent.
(Also, the Non-Hipster turns out to be something like a surrogate for France's current President, Emmanuel Macron, and his dialogue with the Homeless Man provides him with some trenchant political lessons).
When Mr. Ando won the competition, he asked Mr. Yantrasast to stick around, and soon he was something of a surrogate son to the childless Mr. Ando and his wife, Yumiko.
Moochie, 30, who is shaped like a small boulder, got involved in the drug trade when he was 9. His father, a heroin addict, died of AIDS in jail; a drug dealer on his block became something of a surrogate father.
His sister, Leslie, who seems to have absorbed the fallout from their dysfunctional parents' marriage and now craves a sense of rootedness in her life, looked upon Gus, who was 14 years younger, as something of a surrogate son, taking the place of the child she and her husband, Pierce, never had.
He imagined himself as something of a surrogate parent, which is why other children never appeared on the show.
