Comments on: Hello, Can I Have Your Baby For You? http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2008/03/10/hello-can-i-have-your-baby-for-you/ Reality-based macroeconomics, finance and more. Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:00:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: Arnav http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2008/03/10/hello-can-i-have-your-baby-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Arnav Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:57:20 +0000 http://teaching.arnavsheth.net/2008/03/10/hello-can-i-have-your-baby-for-you/#comment-86 Ideally, yes. But there is an additional marginal cost to adoption - plenty of red tape to go through. Governments will not let go of their kids that easy. Another way to look at it is if Indian women are exporting their babies, they can't be contributing to overpopulation in India. And lowered population growth in India can't be bad. In any event, I don't have any data on this, but I don't think that this is happening enough to have a significant effect on the world population. Ideally, yes. But there is an additional marginal cost to adoption – plenty of red tape to go through. Governments will not let go of their kids that easy.

Another way to look at it is if Indian women are exporting their babies, they can’t be contributing to overpopulation in India. And lowered population growth in India can’t be bad.

In any event, I don’t have any data on this, but I don’t think that this is happening enough to have a significant effect on the world population.

]]> By: Edward http://blog.arnavsheth.net/2008/03/10/hello-can-i-have-your-baby-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Edward Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:40:42 +0000 http://teaching.arnavsheth.net/2008/03/10/hello-can-i-have-your-baby-for-you/#comment-85 Doesn't this just contribute to the problem of overpopulation? Shouldn't couples who want children but cannot conceive adopt them from overpopulated areas? (unless you're Madonna) Doesn’t this just contribute to the problem of overpopulation? Shouldn’t couples who want children but cannot conceive adopt them from overpopulated areas? (unless you’re Madonna)

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