@seathru@lemmy.sdf.org @yesman@lemmy.world

Ususally, totalitarian regimes wont only punish parents for violation of the policy, but also the children. I was the second child born in Mainland China during the one child policy, and they denied legal documents and essentially tried to denied my existence for as long as possible (practically treating me like a "bastard child", as if I were born out of wedlock or something). They demanded my parents to pay a massive amount of money (aka: a "fine") so I could have a legal identity. My mother also got forcibly sterilized after that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihaizi

Without legal documents, you basically are like an illegal immigrant in your own country.

Its horrible. Both Forced Birth and Forced Abortion policies are two sides of the same coin, government overreach where there shouldn't be.