Married couples who do not have children do not violate the law. Citizens' reproductive rights are protected by law. Couples of childbearing age choose family planning and contraception measures independently to prevent and reduce unwanted pregnancy. Citizens have the right to have children and the obligation to carry out family planning according to law. Both husband and wife have common responsibilities in carrying out family planning.
 Legal basis:
 Article 17 of the Population and Family Planning Law of the People's Republic of China
 Citizens have the right to have children and the obligation to carry out family planning according to law. Both husband and wife have common responsibilities in carrying out family planning.
 Article 18 of the Population and Family Planning Law of the People's Republic of China
 The State advocates age appropriate marriage and childbearing, and excellent birth and childbearing. A couple can have three children.
 Those who meet the conditions prescribed by laws and regulations may request to arrange for another child to be born. The specific measures shall be formulated by the people's congresses of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government or their standing committees.
 Ethnic minorities should also practise family planning, and the specific measures shall be formulated by the people's congresses or their standing committees of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government.
 If the provisions on the reproduction of children between the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where the household registration of the husband and wife is located are inconsistent, the principle of benefiting the parties concerned shall apply.