The Globe and Mail has a very interesting article on adoption in Canada and how Canadian couples desperate to adopt are going directly to the source, setting up websites to sell themselves to pregnant women.
The trend has striking similarities to Internet dating, with couples distilling their lives into a few paragraphs, citing their love of eighties music and Thai food in hope of finding a match. But unlike online dating, the scales are one-sided, with waiting couples vastly outnumbering birth mothers, who have the power to choose.
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