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China's One Child Policy: Couples Struggle To Find The Loopholes

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In China, couples can't have more than one child. But when grandparents pressure them to have more kids, or to have a boy, sometimes enterprising couples will bend the rules. And by "bend," we mean weave a complex web of subterfuge involving temporary divorce, pretend marriages and hired surrogate dads.

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