Quote Originally Posted by Assertn View Post
I had commented on this last fall when it came up on Reddit, but basically the jist of this is this: cultural relativism.
It's easy for us to look at an article like this and feel appalled, but think about it from a chinese man's perspective. To them, carrying on the bloodline is the most important thing. Couple this with the fact that each person can only have one child, and you can see why a man might feel cheated, when his chosen partner hid her genes from him.
That makes sense, and I did miss the culturally relative significance of such a lawsuit. I guess I was still banging my head against the desk from the Seau lawsuit news.

From what I've heard, it's not true that you can only have one child. I've been told (by a Chinese girl in China) each person can have one child, so each couple can have two. Regardless, like Buff said, it requires a level of disclosure that will make a mess of things for those looking to pair and have a family. There's a certain level of disclosure required between partners, and admitting to plastic surgery crosses that line. However I don't know if the Chinese rely on stare decisis in their rulings.