Plans to fine women who have children out of wedlock have caused outrage in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
On Monday, state media reported that under draft legislation being considered by the city's government unmarried mothers and women who had children with men who were already married would be charged hefty "social compensation fees".
The plans, drawn up by family planning officials in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, are designed to target women who "knowingly have children out of wedlock", according to a report in the Global Times newspaper.
State media said the aim of the legislation was to "intensify family planning management and keep the birth rate at a low level." The unveiling of the draft legislation came just days after China was appalled by the case of Baby 59, a newborn baby boy who was miraculously rescued from a sewage pipe in Zhejiang province. Full story...
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On Monday, state media reported that under draft legislation being considered by the city's government unmarried mothers and women who had children with men who were already married would be charged hefty "social compensation fees".
The plans, drawn up by family planning officials in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, are designed to target women who "knowingly have children out of wedlock", according to a report in the Global Times newspaper.
State media said the aim of the legislation was to "intensify family planning management and keep the birth rate at a low level." The unveiling of the draft legislation came just days after China was appalled by the case of Baby 59, a newborn baby boy who was miraculously rescued from a sewage pipe in Zhejiang province. Full story...
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