Louis Theroux's Altered States: Take My Baby

Available from Sunday 1st June on BBC Nordic+.

California is the US adoption capital, with 85% of newborn adoptions carried out privately, rather than arranged by the state. It's a highly lucrative business for the agencies, facilitators and lawyers who match up birth mothers with adoptive parents willing to pay up to $50,000 for the privilege.

Louis Theroux's Altered States: Take My Baby

Watch Louis Theroux's Altered States: Take My Baby

On BBC Nordic+.

Synopsis

California is the US adoption capital, with 85% of newborn adoptions carried out privately, rather than arranged by the state. It's a highly lucrative business for the agencies, facilitators and lawyers who match up birth mothers with adoptive parents willing to pay up to $50,000 for the privilege. Louis talks to women choosing to hand over their own flesh and blood in open adoptions. Ado…

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