I read this story with interest as I adore the idea of big families and highly encourage couples to have as many children as possible. Big families bring immense joys and center us around the important things in life.
Chinese elites and billionaires reportedly are turning to surrogates to quietly have large numbers of U.S.-born babies. A report by The Wall Street Journal described how a L.A. family court judge grew alarmed after court clerks noticed the same intended parent name repeatedly…
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) December 14, 2025
Chinese elites and billionaires reportedly are turning to surrogates to quietly have large numbers of U.S.-born babies.
An exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal on Saturday described how a Los Angeles family court judge grew alarmed after court clerks noticed the same intended parent name repeatedly appearing in sealed surrogacy filings.
The man, Chinese video game billionaire Xu Bo, sought parental rights to multiple unborn children at once and told the judge — appearing by video from China through an interpreter — that he hoped to have roughly 20 U.S.-born children through surrogacy, "boys" in particular, to someday take over his business.
According to people who attended the confidential hearing, Judge Amy Pellman concluded Xu's plan looked less like building a family and more like treating children as a production line.
In a rare move, she denied his parentage request, leaving the children he paid to be born in legal limbo — an unusual rebuke in an industry where parentage orders are typically routine.
The Journal said the case is a window into a little-known but growing trend: Wealthy Chinese clients using America’s largely unregulated, state-by-state surrogacy system to produce U.S.-born children at scale, sometimes without ever setting foot in the country.
This is another example of why birthright citizenship must be revisited. So, apparently this man has his 'seed' delivered to the US, tons of surrogates (who are presumably American citizens) are paid to be inseminated and have his baby and then he takes the parentage rights. This judge threw a wrench in the plan, apparently.
In July, KABC in Los Angeles reported that an Arcadia couple's 21 children, most born through surrogates, were taken into protective custody amid a child abuse investigation after a 2-month-old suffered a traumatic head injury.
The station quoted investigators describing severe discipline in the home and said the FBI was working with local police to untangle how the operation functioned.
The Associated Press similarly reported that 21 children were placed with child-welfare authorities, with police investigating whether surrogate mothers were misled and noting business records tied to a surrogacy company previously registered at the couple’s address.
Others have these children and then don't take care of the children. Then they are left for the American child welfare system to support.
They've been doing this for at least a decade... talk to any Republicans of Chinese descent who are in the Pasadena area. They've been watching it and screaming about it for a while.
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) December 14, 2025
Of course, Biden and Judy Chu didn't care. Let's shut it all down! https://t.co/Uu1kqwahFM
AND all the more reason to revise that ' birthright citizenship ' nonsense !!
— Richard Crampton (@foxwrangler) December 15, 2025
Right away.
