Source: China – South China Morning PostLast week’s decision to abolish China’s 40-year-old policy of imposing hefty fines on so-called surplus births puts the final nail in the coffin of the country’s notorious family planning regime.
The fines started in the early 1980s and instilled fear throughout society to discourage births. They could immediately bankrupt a family.
In some provinces, the maximum fine was set at 10 years of the local average income for both the father and the mother, or a couple had to pay a one-off cash…Read More