Is it morally acceptable to sell one's breast milk and to be a wet nurse as one's professional job?

News media flocked for in-depths cover and netizens had been pouring comments on online forums upon the report that Shenzhen of South China's Guangdong Province has seen professional wet nurses, most of whom are young and nice ladies with very good monthly pays.

According to an interview by a legal program of CCTV Channel 12, Ai Xiaoxiong, a human manager of a housekeeping service company, which is now running wet nurse agency business said they are doing kind thing to help the jobless and poor.

Though the legality of wet nurse agency is under debating, the housekeeping service company that Ai works for is running it based on non-prohibition from laws.

Ai said it was not easy to recruit professional wet nurses because urban people look upon it while rural people can't accept it morally.

However, the very good pay attracted a 24-year-old lady named A Xia, mother of a 4-month-old kid and the first professional wet nurse Ai's company hired. A Xia is told that she would earn 6,000 - 8,000 yuan per month if she takes the job.

A Xia, in her working uniform stands beside the bed in her dormitory that her hirer company provided her.

"I came to ask for the job because I love to stay with children besides the good pay and my husband supports me with the job", A Xia said.

The company provided A Xia a comfortable dormitory and gave her baby-sitting train.

It is reported that Ai's company had operated other eye-catching housekeeping service before like university student's nannies and migrant nannies to Guangdong Province.

Zhao Xiaofeng, the director responsible for planning of the company said he had been confident in the new service despite the expected difficulties caused by the public debate.

"Until now we have received decades of calls asking for the wet nurses", Zhao said.

Now A Xia has been hired with a monthly pay of 2,000 yuan, before giving up a 13,000-yuan pay offered by another hirer.

"We totally support A Xia's choice", Zhao said, "Although we need to earn profit". The company pays A Xia an additional subsides of 1,000 yuan per month because of her choice of a lower pay, according to Zhao.

However, Gu Jun, a sociology expert was not optimistic about the future professional wet nurses. "I don't think mother's milk should be allowed to sell. It is not acceptable especially when a mother sells her milk totally for a living at the cost of sparing her own children's milk," Gu said.