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HowChinaprofitsfrompopulationcontrolCNN.com
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Parents who've lost their only child form choir
for support
Lawyer says one-child policy was financially
lucrative for provinces
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HowChinaprofitsfrompopulationcontrolCNN.com
'Belly money'
Yang is one of hundreds of millions of Chinese
couples affected by the country's one-child policy.
The law held that most Chinese couples could only have one child each. On January 1, the law changed to
allow couples to have up to two children.
But the one-child policy was enforced for three decades, at times in brutal ways. Rights groups have long
said forced abortions and sterilizations were a regular occurrence.
Couples who could afford it were allowed to pay fines in exchange for having more than one child.
"The so-called social support fees are actually a method for local authorities to rake in money," says lawyer
Wu Youshui.
Wu is a lawyer who says local governments strongly
rely on family planning fines to help fund their
operations.
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