China’s one child policy is having a hard time, recieving protests from both the highest and the lowest ends of society. 

The Family Planning Agency (yes, there is one) is getting worried that rich families are ignoring the one child policy and raising families with so many as three kids. The wealthy people can easily afford to pay the horrendous fines that comes with having extra babies, plus they can pay for private schooling, private insurance and generally just buy themselves out of the 25-year old one-kid-and-that’s-it system.

More disturbing is that the New York Times reports serious clashes in Guanxi province last week between locals residents and the police after harsh attempts to enforce the birth control policy. Witnesses have posted stories on the internet of families forced to pay "social child-raising fees", their valuables confiscated if they refused, or pregnant women forced to abortion.

Go forth, but do not multiply…