Li An is living happily with his wife again, one year after they applied for divorce following endless quarrels such as who should change the baby.
China on Tuesday stopped requiring couples to apply for official approval before having a first or second child, following the abolition of the one-child policy.
More than 53,000 couples in Beijing have applied for a second child since the city changed its birth control policy in early 2014.
China's relaxation of its one-child birth control policy after three decades has not resulted in a baby boom as officials once feared.
A health official predicted that China will see more couples apply for a second child this year than 2014, as a result of easing one-child policy to allow couples to have a second child if either parent is an only child.
China currently has no plans to suspend or further relax its one-child policy, Zhao Yanpei, an official with the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), said Wednesday.
High cholesterol levels may impair fertility in couples trying to achieve a pregnancy
The first same sex weddings in Britain are expected to happen from March 29 next year, Women and Equalities Minister Maria Miller said on Tuesday.
A car park attendant introduced that the mother had been there one hour earlier, to secure a parking place for her son, who works in a nearby school and often complains how difficult it is to find a spot.
New HIV infections among stable couples pose great challenge to the fight against the epidemic in Africa, a senior UNAIDS official told Xinhua on Thursday.
Since a federal appeals court on Friday afternoon lifted a stay and allowed same-sex weddings to resume in California, hundreds of gay couples applied online for licenses.
Family planning authorities in Shanghai Municipality are encouraging couples who are both a single child themselves to have a second baby.
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