The baby business

Fertility doctors and adoption agencies are part of a huge business sector, even though parents hate to think of them that way. Business professor Debora Spar describes the surprising market forces involved in the emotional process of becoming a parent.

Guests

• Debora Spar: Senior associate dean at Harvard Business School. She's the author of "The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception."

More from MPR

• Are environmental factors linked to infertility?
  September 27, 2007
• Minn. sextuplets spotlight tough decisions for hopeful parents
  June 25, 2007
• Fight to become a mother
  March 2, 2007
• Reproduction and Responsibility
  April 5, 2004

Resources

• About Debora Spar
• Debora Spar on paying for eggs
• About Spar's lecture at the U