A local court in China’s southern Hunan Province refused a divorce request filed in June 2023 by a mother of six daughters. The woman had asserted that she could no longer tolerate the pressure her husband put on her to provide him with a seventh child, which he hoped would be his son and heir. 
However, comments from internet users within China have hinted that the Chinese court system may be being weaponized to enforce the Chinese Communist Party’s ideological and socioeconomic plans—in this case “forcing” women to have more children—as the catastrophic effects of China’s one-child policy are becoming ever more apparent….