I told the agency in no uncertain terms, “We want our son,” but we would still be responsible for the bill if we kept him. It was like Max was a commodity and we were paying to adopt our own flesh and blood. A caseworker from the agency also said we owed her a further $7,000 for expenses she had incurred for the bureaucracy and for looking after our son.
Commercial surrogacy is increasingly popular in the US, though it’s only legal in some states. The most recently available reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Societ…