There are several exceptions to the law[0]: * The couple has just one child, who is handicapped or unable to work because of non-hereditary diseases. * Both p

There are several exceptions to the law[0]: * The couple has just one child, who is handicapped or unable to work because of non-hereditary diseases. * Both parents are only children themselves, and have just one child so far. * The couple adopted their first child because one of them was diagnosed as infertile. * The couple remarried but have only one child in total. * The couple are ethnic minorities who moved to the city from provinces bordering other countries and were given permission from a high-ranking Family Planning office before they moved. * The husband has brothers, but only one brother is able to give birth, and the others have promised not to adopt. * The husband is a farmer who married a woman already with a daughter (this only if that husband pledges to care for the woman’s parents). * The couple are rural farmers, in which one spouse is a handicapped soldier with an injury grade B or above or can no longer work. * The couple are farmers from the deep mountains who only have a daughter, depend on farming and are poor. * Another exception to the one child policy allowed families in rural areas to have another child if the first child was a girl, in hopes to have a boy as their second child. [0] https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=c5d870bb2fc04f328d5e52cc864ff014 https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=c5d870b...