Father seeks to sell himself, under China's one-child policy...

A victim of China's one-child policy, one father has decided to sell the valuable that's dearest to himself and his family -- his own life.

Yang Zhizhu, 34, was levied a $37,000 "social upbringing fee" and dismissed from his job as a law professor after his wife gave birth to their second daughter in December 2009. The punishment was handed to Yang under China's one-child restrictions, which went into effect in 1980. Ever since, the country has set a quota on the number of children a couple is allowed to have, the way it does to the goods manufactured on an assembly line.

 Yang was a law professor at Beijing's China Youth University for Political Sciences before he was laid off. The dismissal came as an executive punishment in April 2010, following his refusal to pay the penalty, which equals nine times the region's annual average per capita income. More...

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