Ethics
Parent visibility should never come at the expense of carrier autonomy.
Arkid's ethics are practical: clear consent, healthy daily support, privacy boundaries, hospital-led medical decisions, and support through recovery.
Consent And Care Commitments
What Arkid does, and what Arkid does not do.
These commitments protect consent, privacy, clinical judgment, compensation clarity, and recovery support.
- Explain rights, consent, and the daily care plan before commitment.
- Keep hospitals and licensed clinicians in charge of medical decisions.
- Set compensation, medical coverage, privacy, and recovery support rules clearly.
- Coordinate healthy routines, movement, transport, records, translation, and postpartum closeout.
- Treat interest registration as case acceptance, matching, payment approval, or medical progression.
- Let parent visibility override gestational carrier privacy, autonomy, refusal rights, or clinical judgment.
- Use side payments, undisclosed deductions, special requests, photos, videos, or direct pressure outside agreed boundaries.
Visibility And Privacy
Parent updates should add clarity without taking control away from carriers.
Parents need dependable updates and documents. Carriers need autonomy, privacy, and control over what is shared beyond agreed program updates.
Parent updates can cover milestones, appointments, documents, travel-home planning, and non-medical coordination without giving parents medical control.
Privacy, direct contact, photos, videos, personal space, and raw medical details stay protected unless consent and the care plan allow sharing.
Support Standards
Support should be clear before commitment.
Education, daily support, coverage, and recovery expectations should be written in plain language.
- Education and routines
Education sessions, household expectations, transport, and regular movement routines are explained early.
- Compensation rules and categories
Compensation categories, reimbursements, timing rules, and prohibited side requests should be clear.
- Medical coverage categories
Hospital care, prescribed medication, required testing, delivery care, and urgent transport categories should be clear.
- Postpartum support
Recovery planning, checkups, record closeout, family support needs, and next-step guidance continue after delivery.
Medical Boundary
Care coordination does not replace clinical judgment.
Hospitals and licensed clinicians lead medical decisions. Arkid coordinates records, transport, translation, daily support, and parent updates.
Gestational carrier privacy, photos, videos, medical data, direct communication, and post-birth contact require consent and clear boundaries even when parents want more visibility.
Program design should help carrier participants leave with recovery support, planning, and better next-step options where feasible.