Anchor Baby Update. As China’s one-child policy ends, surrogacy services rise in the U.S.

The L.A. Daily News reports:

With China’s controversial one-child policy no longer in effect, the U.S. is seeing a huge jump in surrogacy-related services.

Ideal Legal Group Inc., a family law firm in Alhambra that specializes in international surrogacy, has already experienced an uptick.

“We had a total of six clients for all of last year, but we’ve already had four clients just for the month of April this year,” said Evie Jeang, the law firm’s founder and managing partner. “I see lots of surrogacy agencies popping up. They’re doing a lot of advertising — but it’s in Chinese, not English.”

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“In China, they don’t have any social services to take care of parents when they get old, so it’s the male child’s responsibility to do that,” he said. “That’s why having a boy in some cases can be so important. But another couple might have a boy and want a girl, or they might have a girl and want a boy.”

Steinberg said some Chinese couples want American women to carry their babies so that they become American citizens with access to U.S. schools and other perks.

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