Children in China

1. What's being discussed in this article? The topic being discussed is about the number of children that a family can have in China. Some families can have more than 1, but never more than 2. The government is trying to distinguish between how many families can have 1 child and how many families can have more than one child. The man in the article had a baby girl but wanted a baby boy so bad. So his wife and him had another baby, that they were not suppose to have and he refused to give it up. He refused to make his wife have an abortion and did not listen to the government. His wife had a baby girl, but they named her a name that mean, "like a boy".

1. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?)This is not breaking news, it is a topic that has been discussed for many years in China. For many years people have been complaining about how many children they are allowed to have. For 25 years now people have been trying to get a two-child policy in China, however the date to change this keeps getting pushed back. It was suppose to change sooner, around 2010, however the government has said nothing will change until at least 2015.

1. What questions do you have that would help make this article make more sense to you? What more do you need to learn about to be able to report on this event?

I need to learn more about how the decision is made between who can have 2 kids and who can have only 1.  I also would like to know how the guy was getting around not paying the government because they were fining him for having more than 1 child.