Question: "If money were the only criterion by which a child's welfare can be gauged, then a baby bought for as much as RM40,000 on the black market would seem set for life. For money-rich but child-poor couples it is a small price to pay to introduce a small life into their home. The cot is gilded, the blanket monogrammed, the college fund filled to the brim. All that's wanting is a bun in the oven. And where there is a baby-for-sale racket, money can indeed buy happiness. And after all, why not?" (NST, March 3, 2013)
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Regarding this black-market babies issue, the main thing that need to be emphasize and to be cared here is not the money that the couples afford to use to buy happiness but the selfishness of the both parties. The child-poor couples and the people who lead the black market.
I do not agree with the statement in the question "money can indeed buy happiness. And after all, why not?". It is true that money CAN buy happiness but, this is not the right way to earn happiness as it involve the life of the loved ones. People are well aware with the cases that black-market get the babies by smuggling or kidnapping. So the babies that they sell is basically someone else's loved ones.
Moreover, I do not agree with child-poor couples that use their money to buy babies because this act will encourage more black-market to continue to do this wrong activities as they earn huge amount of money with one babies. At the end, this problematic case will never reach an ending because they will use the money to do more child kidnapping and stuffs.
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