The removal of 21 children from a Los Angeles-area couple raises serious concerns regarding surrogacy practices. Surrogacy lacks federal regulation, allowing states to create their own rules. The children, taken after allegations of abuse, ranged from infancy to 13 years old. Investigators found that some children were born to paid surrogates, raising questions among former surrogates about the couple's intentions for such a large family. California's surrogacy laws are among the clearest in the country, promoting the practice without limits on the number of children.
Surrogacy has no federal regulation, leaving it up to states to set the rules if they choose to allow it. California is considered a surrogacy-friendly state because it has clear laws around the process.
The children range in age from 2 months to 13 years, with most between 1 and 3, indicating inconsistencies in the family's ability to care for them.
Some women who were paid surrogates for the couple now say they were unaware that the couple was accumulating a supersize family, raising questions about their intentions.
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