Quartz - April 23, 2014
The
familiar image of international surrogacy until now has mainly involved
Americans and Europeans crossing the world to find women to birth their
children. Now, wealthy Chinese couples are seeking surrogates in the
US. The practice—a new version of Chinese “birth tourism”—offers a
solution to rising infertility in China, a way around Chinese population
controls, and even the added bonus of US citizenship for babies born in
the States.
For years, pregnant Chinese women have come to the US, mainly to the West Coast, to give birth to baby US citizens who
can, at the age of 21, sponsor their parents for green cards. In a new
wrinkle, some are instead paying American women to carry their
children—a way of getting citizenship as well as dealing with the fact
that more Chinese couples are facing trouble having children. (Other surrogacy destinations for wealthy Chinese include Thailand, India, and Ukraine, but the US is still the favorite.) Read more...
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