[silverpepsi]

In china you were more than "fined"

Friend's mum was spayed or whatever as punishment for giving birth to twins.

Mind you in the 80s they were straight up executing couples who did swinging.

[seanmcdirmid]

Enforcement was left up to localities, so was extremely uneven. Fines were more the norm in cities, but you and your spouse could also lose your government aid job (as a guide in Guilin told me she was a teacher before having their second kid, this is well into the 2000s).

Usually you wouldn’t be punished for having twins (at least in the cities that is). My wife has friends that are twins, their parents struggled to have even one kid so used fertility drugs (where twins is a more common result).