Breaking the Rules

(Fox News) - Chinese government officials in Hunan Province are openly defying the country's one-child-per-couple rule — and getting away with it.

The BBC reports nearly 2,000 officials broke the rule from the year 2000 to 2005. That's because the government leaders can afford the fines levied as punishment.

One legislator had four children by four different mistresses.

The official Chinese news agency says some officials have not been adequately punished for their crimes — and that has hurt the government's ability to enforce its own birth control policy.