The Farm by Joanne Ramos

Two kinds of immigrant women can be found at Golden Oaks aka the farm. Ms. Wu, who runs the expensive concierge baby farm for really exclusive clients and the women who help her build her dynasty. Ate who is Phillipino born but has worked in the States as a baby nurse, nanny and now helps recruit young women like her cousin Jane, also Phillipino, to be surrogate mothers for Golden Oaks. Jane was trying to follow in her cousin's baby nursing footsteps but has a baby of her own. Morality and free enterprise play major roles in this scary look at what may become the future of childbirth. Many women are desperate to make money to take care of their families and they think they are helping parents have the children they desperately want but can't have on their own. When does the welfare of the surrogate mother become less important than the growing baby and pampered client? When do greed and success give you carte blanche to control people's lives? Reader beware, this book will make you angry.