Nigeria, March 23 -- A UK High Court of Justice has raised concern about the danger of anonymous surrogacy after a Nigerian couple struggled to secure legal parental status for their child due to the lack of identifiable records on the surrogate mother.

Anonymous surrogacy arrangements allow for the intended parents and the surrogate to not know each other's identities or to have limited direct contact.

These arrangements are often facilitated by surrogacy agencies or legal representatives who act as intermediaries. In the case of the couple identified as Mr and Mrs Houldsworth, Lifelink Fertility Clinic, a medical centre in Lagos, Nigeria, facilitated the arrangement.

However, in a ruling delivered last month, the President of the Fam...