   According to the BBC report, local authorities often withhold
identification papers for an illegally-born second child, making
it difficult for them to attend public school, access basic
healthcare and other services, and obtain employment in
adulthood. One couple profiled had to pay a $10,000 fine for
having a second child, and then had to further bribe a
kindergarten to take their son, while his classmates attend for
free. According to the BBC's accompanying video report, the
boy's mother refused to have an abortion after her government-
issued birth control failed. The local authorities have also
ordered her to get sterilized.  The situation is so dire that
parents have resorted to suing the local government for their
children's papers. Take, for example, Liu Fei's story:
Exorbitant fines, denying a child their basic rights from birth,
and making it even more difficult based on someone's second
marriage - there seems to be no end in sight to the coercion and
hardship that Chinese families face beca