Rural families are typically allowed to have a second child if the first is a girl.
To have a second child, you often must pay a bribe or a fine.
There, couples with one spouse from a one-child family will be allowed to have a second child.
One local councillor infamously advocated compulsory sterilisation for benefit claimants who have had a second child or more.
Some try to have a second child abroad, so that the child can get a foreign passport and not be counted by Chinese family-planning officials.
"I had some concerns and fears, " said Kaufman, 44, who ended up marrying one year after she had a second child by the same anonymous donor.
When we decided to have a second child, we ended up having this discussion about how do we have two children and continue this life we have.
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At age 39, still hoping to have a second child, I was warned by an Egyptian IVF colleague to "yallah"-- get going -- before it was too late.
On the bright side, I have managed to produce a second child, work and have some amazing adventures - but I also see many lost hours spent endlessly repairing things.
As a recent article from Reuters explains, some couples who have the opportunity to have a second child still choose only to have one as the costs of living and education are so substantial.
Although Ms. Feng and Mr. Deng, who already have a 5-year-old daughter, didn't qualify to have a second child, it is illegal to force a woman to have a late-term abortion, China's state-run Xinhua news agency noted.
The practice has become increasingly controversial in recent years, feeding public anger over a family-planning system that critics say falls particularly hard on the urban poor who often can't afford to pay the fine to have a second child.
Ms Dent told the court she had been clean since Riley's death and denies a second charge of child cruelty to a person under the age of 16 as it is alleged she failed to ensure her son was kept away from Class A drugs.
And he said more Russian couples were choosing to have a second or even a third child.
The explanation for this pattern in India is that couples welcome a first-born of either sex, but if she is a daughter, then some ensure the second child is a son.
Yet unmarried couples can split children on their tax returns, giving them the greater value of a first and second child credit for their fourth or fifth child.
Against the odds, I had my second child a year later, a daughter, Justine, without IVF assistance.
And the government has pledged to send out a second voucher when the child is seven, but the value of the second payment is not yet known.
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Because I married a wonderful woman with a good job, I was able to close my business after the birth of our second child to become a writer and full-time dad.
Tejal Master, of Houston, a 32-year-old information technology analyst, is six months pregnant with her second child and has a convertible drop-side crib that she bought for her son, Daivik, now one year old.
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In the second incident, a child vomited, fell into a coma and was hospitalized for five days.
Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson also had to make late changes after Fernando Torres missed the match to attend the birth of his second child, a son.
Q-17: If a registered domestic partner adopts the child of his or her partner as a second parent or co-parent, may the adopting parent claim the adoption credit for the qualifying adoption expenses he or she pays or incurs to adopt the child?
The commission is now considering pilot schemes in five or six provinces allowing couples in which one partner is an only child to have a second baby, according to people familiar with the discussions.
In addition, the act of breastfeeding has a contraceptive effect which would mean that in the past a teenager would be unable to become pregnant for a second time while feeding her first child for several years.
For a second, his expression was soft and pliable, like that of a child waking from a nap, but then his mind took over and something calcified in his features, his muscles hardening against the invasion of thought.
Couches arose because they were part of the extra-domestic arrangements of her second husband, Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post. (Hence her Washington exile.) He left her when she was pregnant with their second child, falling for a woman whose neck was approximately as long as George's and whose feet were splayed.
Administrators are now promising parents who are registering their children in kindergarten that, if a child does not read at grade level by the end of second grade, the school, at no expense to the parents, will provide a tutor to bring that child up to speed.
Feeding habits in the second six months of life determine a child's future weight gain, so consuming too many calories in infancy can lead to obesity later on, he explained.
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