{"id":3113,"date":"2010-03-19T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T21:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2010-03-19T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T22:06:28","slug":"3113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/19\/3113\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth tourism &#038; Jackpot babies &#8211; an entire planet of &#8220;American&#8221; citizens on its way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Burcuo\u011flu said she and her partner chose to have the birth in the U.S. to make their child\u2019s life more comfortable. \u201cI don\u2019t want her to deal with visa issues \u2013 American citizenship has so many advantages.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Birth tourism in US on the rise for Turkish parents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday, March 12, 2010<br \/>\nI\u015f\u0131l E\u011frikavuk <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ISTANBUL &#8211; H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<br \/>\nWith more Turkish parents wanting their child to be born in the US, tourism companies are starting to offer \u2018birth tourism\u2019 packages to US cities. Many women say giving birth in the US has benefits including cheaper education and fewer visa worries. Some Americans, however, want to restrict the practice, citing fears of illegal migration<\/p>\n<p>If Bruce Springsteen\u2019s 1982 hit \u201cBorn in the USA\u201d were to become popular again, the title might now refer to thousands of Turkish children whose parents are increasingly traveling to the United States to give birth.<\/p>\n<p>According to tourism expert G\u00fcrkan Boztepe and media sources, 12,000 Turkish children have been born in the U.S. since 2003.The numbers are significant enough to draw the attention of tourism companies and inspire them to pursue \u201cbirth tourism.\u201d&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=birth-tourism-to-the-usa-explodes-2010-03-12\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Burcuo\u011flu said she and her partner chose to have the birth in the U.S. to make their child\u2019s life more comfortable. \u201cI don\u2019t want her to deal with visa issues \u2013 American citizenship has so many advantages.\u201d Birth tourism in US on the rise for Turkish parents Friday, March 12, 2010 I\u015f\u0131l E\u011frikavuk ISTANBUL &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}