Synopsis
Louis Theroux explores open adoption in California, where women hand over their babies at birth to adoptive families paying tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege.
- Programme: Louis Theroux: Altered States
- Episode: 03: Take My Baby
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2018
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