Big-family demand becomes a luxury market

In the third episode from the fringes of the fertility industry, The Journal examines the rise of the surrogacy superuser. In the absence of meaningful regulation, the industry has enabled a new phenomenon of wealthy foreign men having dozens of children via surrogacy in the U.S. Ryan Knutson speaks with WSJ’s Katherine Long, who reports on the strange case of Xu Bo, a Chinese tech entrepreneur on a mission to have a mega-family. 

Further Listening:

- Fertility Inc.: ‘Our Money Was Gone’

- Fertility Inc.: When the Surrogate Gets Left With the Bill

- Listen to all the Fertility Inc. episodes

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