Investing in US birth for ‘American’ baby
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Both Wang Wenwen and her husband Gu Qin are from one-child families, so they have two children, as allowed by China’s family planning policy.
They are well off and decided to make a big investment to deliver their second child in the United States last year so he would have more opportunities as a US citizen and one day help bring his whole family to America.
Wang, 32, works in a tea company owned by her family. Her husband runs a training school for landscape designers.
They declined to reveal their total income, but said raising two children and delivering a second child in the United States isn’t a problem.
They spend 15,000 yuan a year on basketball, swimming and martial arts courses for their six-year-old son Gu Tianyue, who is in first grade. They pay 2,800 a month for an after-school course where teachers help him with his homework. Since their father speaks English, he buys books and cartoons in English for his children.
“We take two big trips a year to broaden the children’s horizons,” Wang said. Each trip costs 2,000 to 20,000 yuan.
Their second son, Gu Jiayue, was born in Los Angeles last year; he’s one and a half.
Unlike many couples who hire agencies to arrange US births, Wang did it all herself, “DIY,” she called it.
The total cost of was 150,000 yuan covering a stay of five months, a rented apartment, medical fees, transportion and other expenses. That’s around half the cost charged by an agency.
Her husband is fluent in English and all went smoothly. They all went to the US with their elder son and Wang’s mother in March 2012 and returned to Shanghai in July with one more family member.
“My parents are just ordinary workers and there was no early childhood education, extracurricular courses or so many activities,” Wang said.
“Our children have more opportunities, which is great. We plan to send both sons to the United States when they are teenagers.
The children will focus on English as well as physical education since sports is popular in America and important in schools.”
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