Elderly China father secretly uses surrogate to have baby girl after only daughter, 29, told him she would not have children

A shocked Guo later learned that the baby was born via surrogacy after her husband paid an agency.

The child was carried by a university student, the report said.

Guo and her husband, who live in Yiyang, Hunan province, in central China, have one daughter – their only child, who told them she does not want to marry or have children.

“My husband said: ‘Your choice means I will never be a grandfather. What’s the point of raising you? Not having a baby it means you are not filial, according to Chinese traditional culture’,” Guo said.

The man said because the infant girl was so cute and healthy, he might ask the surrogacy institute for a boy next time.

“I flared up into a fury. I am going to divorce him,” said Guo.

The husband stole his wife’s identity card to apply for the infant’s birth certificate which states that he is her father and Guo is her mother.

Guo’s daughter, who’s surname is Gao, said her father is absolutely not able to raise the infant alone. She is worried that once her parents are divorced, she will be left with the legal obligation to bring up the child.

“How ridiculous this is,” Gao said.

The news report told the story of another man, aged 62, from Henan province in central China who also hired a surrogacy company without telling his family, so he could have a baby boy.

The man’s daughter said her father had wanted a son for a long time.

“After the one-child policy was abandoned, my father asked my mother to have another child for him. But my mother was nearly 50 and she did not want to have another child,” said the daughter.

She said the surrogacy company charged her father 540,000 yuan (US$75,000) and guaranteed the baby would be a boy.

Surrogacy is illegal in China. In 2023, the authorities issued a directive to crack-down on the activity.

The story caused a heated discussion on mainland social media.

“I support surrogacy being illegal. Otherwise, women will just be used for their wombs,” one online observer said on Douyin.

“Maybe in the future, dating couples will need to check their DNA to see if they are siblings,” wrote another.