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Originally Posted by roscoe36  I wonder given Yao's celebrity if he would be allowed to have more than one child. |
Anyone can have more than one child if they have enough money. Firstly, if you have a girl first, I think you are allowed to try again for a boy (that may be incorrect, though). Secondly, if you have more than one child, generally you just have to pay a penalty. If you've got the big bucks, no problemo. So Yao could definitely afford to have more than one kid. Also, I really would have to see some hard evidence to believe that Chinese families living in the US feel peer pressure to only have one child. It's probably true that many have adopted the idea that one child is enough, but the change in the law is fairly recent, and I don't know that the idea has necessarily permeated into the general conscience of the people. I have spoken with people who said they wished they could move to America so they could have more than one child.