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The law doesn't punish people for being wet nurses - but there is a twist on the mainland
What money can't buy, the theme underlying Harvard professor Michael Sandel's latest book, may prompt some head-scratching in the mainland's market-driven society.
New to the list of household luxuries among its super-rich is breast milk - sometimes straight from the source.
Hiring women to nurse the young was a common practice in imperial families.
But Mao Zedong called it "decadent", and for decades, the mostly poor masses under his reign clung to breast milk as the only affordable nourishment for their offspring.
Wet nurses are in demand again, for a different reason. Modern lifestyles have prompted many career-driven or aesthetically minded mothers to forsake breastfeeding and feed into what later became a highly lucrative baby formula market.
Yet, a long line of food safety scandals that first erupted in 2004, with fake milk powder resulting in at least 13 infant deaths, has led many wealthy parents to seek alternatives.