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Wenzhou couple fined record amount for having second child
Staff Reporter 2012-06-02
A couple in China have been fined 1.3 million yuan (US$204,000) for having a second child, setting a record for violating the one-child policy in the city Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, reports our Chinese-language sister newspaper Want Daily.
The couple are reportedly wealthy and paid the fine without difficulty. After a businessman in the city was fined 1 million yuan (US$158,000) in 2007, the record for the amount of the fine has reportedly been broken several times. The fairness of the policy has been called into question, with many saying that it is effectively a license for those wealthy enough to afford to pay to have more children.
The amount of the fine for every additional birth is arrived at through doubling to quadrupling the previous year's average disposable income for urban residents or the net income for rural residents, according to the policy. The number of violators in Wenzhou accounts for half the population of the city, and those who paid more than 1 million yuan were employers.
"So if it costs up to $200,000 to keep your second child how can those who adopt from China continue to say that the children they are taking out of China are "unwanted" or that the natural parents "made a difficult decision" (as in... "Oh I have less than $204 k in the bank")." <= asked by someone sane
Wenzhou couple fined record amount for having second child
Staff Reporter 2012-06-02
A couple in China have been fined 1.3 million yuan (US$204,000) for having a second child, setting a record for violating the one-child policy in the city Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, reports our Chinese-language sister newspaper Want Daily.
The couple are reportedly wealthy and paid the fine without difficulty. After a businessman in the city was fined 1 million yuan (US$158,000) in 2007, the record for the amount of the fine has reportedly been broken several times. The fairness of the policy has been called into question, with many saying that it is effectively a license for those wealthy enough to afford to pay to have more children.
The amount of the fine for every additional birth is arrived at through doubling to quadrupling the previous year's average disposable income for urban residents or the net income for rural residents, according to the policy. The number of violators in Wenzhou accounts for half the population of the city, and those who paid more than 1 million yuan were employers.
"So if it costs up to $200,000 to keep your second child how can those who adopt from China continue to say that the children they are taking out of China are "unwanted" or that the natural parents "made a difficult decision" (as in... "Oh I have less than $204 k in the bank")." <= asked by someone sane