Katherine Long
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495 appearances
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9 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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It was certainly unusual.
When we started speaking with people who work in this corner of the surrogacy industry that caters to Chinese parents, something that we kept hearing was concerns about a small number of Chinese parents who seem to want to have extremely large numbers of children.
When I first heard about this, I thought this had to be an exaggeration.
This had to be made up.
But then we started looking into it and it turned out to be true.
Is this why you have so many children?
Yeah.
You know, gotta practice what I preach.
One attorney said his client was a billionaire Chinese parent with 20 children.
Another surrogacy agency owner said that he had helped fill an order for over 100 children born through surrogacy.
At least they seem to be trying to, yeah.
How is this possible?
It's possible because there's a network of companies that are designed to cater to the whims of the very rich that are operating in a space nearly wholly devoid of regulation.
that would be shipped over to an IVF clinic in the United States.
An embryo might be created and then transferred into a surrogate in California.
We've spoken with a few surrogates who've said that the children they carried and gave birth to were ultimately picked up at the hospital, not by the parents, but by nannies or people carrying power of attorney documentation.
They may take care of them for a couple of months.
And once the child's travel documents are ready, the nanny will help bring the child back to China and reunite it with his parents.
This can easily cost well over $150,000.
We're looking at $200,000 is pretty typical.
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