What is a Child Worth in Bolivia?

Overheard a conversation between two women walking by in the street today. It sounded like one was telling the other that someone had been offered Bs. 2,000 to be a surrogate mother. That's about US$285 at the current exchange rate. So please, when you think about poverty, think also about what people are prepared to do to get a few weeks respite from it, after living in it for all of their lives. And think about what unscrupulous people can do to poor people who will never be able to afford a lawyer, even if a lawyer would be of use to them, which is unlikely. And of the thousands of young women who go missing every year in this country, how many of those had children and where did those children end up? We need secure communications, people.