In luxury apartment complexes in Southern California and in grand, single-family homes in New York, “maternity hotels” are brimming with pregnant women and cooing newborn babies. For wealthy ...

Federal agents on Tuesday raided more than three dozen “maternity hotels” in Southern California where foreign women give birth, allegedly for the sole purpose of having a U.S.-citizen baby ...

Federal Homeland Security agents raided 20 alleged “maternity hotels” in Southern California where pregnant Chinese women pay tens of thousands of dollars to live to ensure a “made in ...

Southern California apartment complexes that doubled as "maternity hotels" for Chinese women who want made-in-America babies were raided early Tuesday, capping an unprecedented federal sting ...

Federal agents raided a slew of luxury "maternity hotels" in California on Wednesday for allegedly housing Chinese women who wanted to give birth in America. Department of Homeland Security ...

Editor’s note: This article published in The Times on Jan. 3, 2013. USA Baby Care’s website makes no attempt to hide why the company’s clients travel to Southern California from China and ...

An ordinance targeting maternity hotels is not necessary, since the facilities are illegal under existing law, the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning said in a report. Since ...

Two people were convicted on Friday of operating a maternity hotel in Rancho Cucamonga, which rented housing units and provided other services to pregnant women from China to give birth in ...

Today, American “yuezi centers,” sometimes referred to as “maternity hotels,” compete for business from pregnant women from China willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to sit the ...

The discovery of at least two alleged “maternity hotels” in Chino Hills is motivating the area’s assemblyman to craft a bill creating new penalties for those who he believes are exploiting a ...

Luo turned back to her afternoon tea. Luo was a guest at a new style of hotel that is spreading rapidly across China: luxury “maternity hotels” that help new mothers zuoyuezi, or “sit the month,” in ...