title: littleloved by scholars trump also gets little of their cash
text: why american surrogates are in demand for chinese families kalee thompson hollywood reporter november   
  the first time dianna barindelli carried a baby that wasnt her own was in  we were done having kids but i still wanted to be pregnant says the modesto calif stayathome mom whose own daughters are  and  barindelli signed up with the center for surrogate parenting in encino one of the most exclusive surrogacy agencies in the world in  she matched with a chinese couple unlike many agencies csp first shows parent applications to the surrogates rather than the other way around its little things that youll connect with people over says barindelli who was attracted to pictures of the couples extended travels and their traditional wedding photos 
  the embryo transfer took place in late  barindelli emailed the mom weekly sending updates and ultrasound pictures with wechat an app that offers instantaneous translation the intended parents ips planned to be there for the birth but the baby boy arrived two weeks early  hours before they arrived says barindelli i texted and made sure the mom was ok with him staying in my room i cleared everything with her i didnt want her to feel bad that she wasnt there 
  barindelli who used her surrogacy fees to set up a college fund for her girls is pregnant again this time with the baby due feb  of a taiwanese couple she may not be done her first chinese couple emailed her recently soon after their sons first birthday they still have frozen embryos and hope that barindelli now  will carry their second child 
  commercial surrogacy is banned in most parts of the world as well as in many us states until recently infertile couples singles and gay wouldbe dads had a handful of options to turn to when it came to finding a surrogate among them india thailand nepal and mexico where surrogacy services have cost a quarter of the  to  bill typical in the us but in the past few years those countries have started enforcing laws banning international surrogacy meanwhile chinathe worlds most populous country with a growing wealthy elite and where some doctors believe infertility is more common than in the uslifted its decadeslong onechild policy the result is a soaring chinese demand for us surrogacy services one that is flourishing particularly in california with its culturally friendly enclaves excellent physicians and favorable state laws that regard ips as a babys legal parents even before birth if proper court documents are filed snip 
  snip despite csps southern california location  percent of its clients now are foreigners up from  percent a decade ago rival agency growing generations clients have included sarah jessica parker and  rock director todd holland also sees half of its clients coming from overseas as does gifted journeys a boutique agency in pasadena at san diegos expect miracles surrogacy international clients account for  percent of ips and of foreigners participating in this permutation of californias birth tourism the number of chinese ips is growing the fastest making up the most common single foreign nationality for many agencies right now 
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  most local agencies have a mix of caucasian latina and africanamerican surrogates i cant think of a time when weve had an asian surrogate says growing generations bergman multiple agency heads say chinese ips tend to strongly prefer a caucasian surrogate people really have this fantasy because of a lot of the marketing that was done in china says gifted journeys wilsonmiller they have this picture of blond surrogates who look like movie stars carrying the baby with their traditional families snip 
  the concept of crossrace surrogacy can confound friends family and associates of surrogates and ips alike in august comedian glozell green who is africanamerican and her husband also africanamerican had a baby girl via a surrogate our surrogate is a blueeyed blonde the youtube star told potential ips gathered in a culver city hotel in early october people in her life kept asking if the baby was going to be white 
  surrogate selection aside california has the added allure of numerous enclaves where families can be surrounded by chinese speakers and businesses people from china can stay in irvine for example and they have chinese tv on their cable packages throughout california there are places they can go and shop and find stuff in chinese if they go to kansas or oklahoma its total culture shock says expect miracles anderson snip 
  of course any baby born via surrogate in the us has birthright citizenship the chinese couples really like that because a lot of them want to come back and forth says molly obrien a fertility lawyer with offices in torrance who frequently travels to china to participate in information sessions for wouldbe parents often sponsored by doctors offices or assistedreproduction agencies maybe they eventually want that child to be able to go to college here unlike the us china forbids dual citizenship and most americanborn chinese babies remain us citizens most chinese couples just keep that american passport its only if you want to use the government services that youve got to be chinese says csps synesiou 
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