Don't the Chinese have a similar system? You get benefit for your first sprog, but they take it away if you have more.
IIRC it was intended to control population growth, but the end result is more backstreet abortions.
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Tue 5 Oct 2010, 12:44,
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IIRC it was intended to control population growth, but the end result is more backstreet abortions.
Not exactlyYou get allowed a first child but you have to scrap any subsequent children, or do you pick your favourite, I don't know how it works.
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Tue 5 Oct 2010, 12:49,
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I once read that they leave sickly or unwanted (usually girl) children in the woods to die.Could be apocryphal, could be true.
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Tue 5 Oct 2010, 13:27,
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