A couple nights back we had an impromptu dinner party with the couple and their kids who bought the beach house behind our. During the conversations it was mentioned that she was planning on being a surrogate due the fee starts at 40K. While that didn't surprise me, what did was finding out that it is overwhelmingly Chinese people who are looking to American women to surrogate their babies being they will carry American citizenship.

Broke ladies? Live in a state where it is allowed? Rent out your womb today to a Chinese couple for 60k.


Whoa, Baby! Why American Surrogates Are in Demand for Chinese Families

Commercial surrogacy is banned in most parts of the world, as well as in many U.S. states.

Of course, any baby born via surrogate in the U.S. has birthright citizenship. "The Chinese couples really like that because a lot of them want to come back and forth," says Molly O'Brien, a fertility lawyer with offices in Torrance who frequently travels to China to participate in information sessions for would-be parents, often sponsored by doctors offices or assisted-reproduction agencies. "Maybe they eventually want that child to be able to go to college here." Unlike the U.S., China forbids dual citizenship, and most American-born Chinese babies remain U.S. citizens. "Most Chinese couples just keep that American passport.
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