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- Jun 30, 2002
nu.nl said:RIJSIJK - On Friday, the Belgian tv channel VTM reported that a Belgian woman sold her child in December 2012 for 5000 euros to a gay French couple.
The host mother was artificially inseminated with the sperm of one of the two men and gave birth in Paris to a boy.
In Belgium, there is no specific law regarding host mothers. In France, it is against the law and furthermore, gay couples are not allowed to adopt children. This is why they often go looking for a host mother in Belgium.
In Belgium, the woman was not charged. The gay couple in France risk jail.
From a popular Dutch news site (right of centre, like the gov).
I just read a couple of days ago that now 50% of adopted children in Belgium go to gay couples, up by a lot of percent on a few years before.
While I don't have any particular view on the morality or not of the topic, it seems a bit rich to be sellin 'em off for peanuts to all and sundry, gay or not.
I know nothing of the Belgian adoption system, but maybe they just see the gays as having less 'baggage' than the straights afa as adoption is concerned.
Not really trying to stir much up here, just reporting stuff that happens over here. Proof will be in the pudding in 30 years time, I guess....



