Posted on 12/25/2011 6:55:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
BEIJING — A rich Chinese couple who had eight babies with the help of two surrogate mothers has been forced to move out of their villa following a public uproar and could face a large fine for breaching strict family planning laws mandating only one child.
The couple in the booming southern metropolis of Guangzhou had the children last year, according to state media, but the story only came to light after a picture of the children — four boys and four girls — was used by a photography studio in an advertisement.
The story was first featured in the Guangzhou Daily on Monday. The English-language website China Daily carried a picture of what appeared to be the eight babies, credited to the newspaper, although with part of their faces blurred.
A separate China Daily report quoted a photographer surnamed Li from the photo studio, QQ Baby, in the Tianhe district of Guangzhou.
"The photo shoot was a mess," he said. "Some of the babies were crying, some were sleepy, while the others were crawling around."
Li said that after a whole afternoon's hard work, only a dozen photos had been taken, and just two of those were satisfactory.
The octuplets, four boys and four girls, now have 11 nannies, with eight caring for them, two cleaning the house and one preparing food, the report said.
Reuters said the couple turned to in vitro fertilization after years of trying to have children and spent nearly $157,800 (one million yuan) on the procedure, state television reported.
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Of course not. A fat fine is inevitable though. As long as you can and are willing to pay for the fine, you can ignore the one chind policy all you want in here.
Thank you. I have a close friend who travels to China quarterly. He’s the President of a local company and gets the royal treatment. He tells me of how the women are treated in the cities, and what their fate usually entails (prostitution). It’s a trap for them as they are shamed to never return home, usually in rural areas.
Good for them! My agency says they match children based on personality types, or try to. If true, I am so screwed!!! ;)
You have to wonder about matching criteria. Everyone, including the FedEx driver who delivered our referral package, says our daughter looks just like me.
That being said, I only know of one match where the baby didn’t seem custom made for her forever family.
This is the society that the left envisions for America, and indeed, the whole world,
where they, the self appointed ruling class, get to live how they wish and consume as they wish, because they are “enlightened” and “know better”,
whilst the masses are forced to live under oppressive, controlling government laws.
Glad to read there is careful consideration in matching. Man, I can't wait!!!! Really have to start socking away money. With a 18 months of no job a year ago, and those crazy household emergencies that pop up, it's been difficult.
Don’t worry too much about “extra” cash. There’s surprisingly little to pay for once you’re there.
We only *had* to spend about three hundred in currency adjustments, and we bought some of the formula she was used to to ease the transition to better food.
Take an empty Visa card, and you should do fine.
Not at all! You’ll bring home a beautiful happy baby. Good luck to you!
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