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A Chinese couple paid $155,000 in fees to have 7 children in violation of the country s 2-child policy INSIDER 2/25/2021 kwarren@businessinsider.com (Katie Warren) © Shi Gangze/VCG via Getty Images Until 2015, families in China were allowed to have only one child. Shi Gangze/VCG via Getty Images Families must pay social support fees if they violate the country s two-child maximum policy. A Chinese couple has paid $155,000 in fees in order to have seven children in violation of the law that limits couples to having two children, Mandy Zuo reported for the South China Morning Post. Zhang Rongrong, a 34-year-old businesswoman, and her 39-year-old husband have five boys and two girls between one and 14 years old, Zhang told the Post. In flouting China s two-child policy, the couple had to pay their local government social support fees. Otherwise, their additional children wouldn t have been able to receive government identity documents.

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