VNExpress-May 15
Ngan, 35, was almost disinherited by her mother for refusing to have children. She said that when she and her husband travelled from Ho Chi Minh City to the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang for a family member’s commemoration day last year, they had to answer nonstop questions from their relatives about having children. When her mother, Van, asked them directly about their plans, Ngan answered simply: “We decided not to have children.” The two women then went back and forth about the pros and cons of having children. But to Ngan, no matter how much some of her mother’s points made sense, it seemed selfish to have a child simply for her own benefit.
Van realized that she could not change her daughter. So she said: “If you don’t give birth, you won’t inherit anything from us..” There has not been any extensive research on the number of married couples deciding not to have children in Vietnam, however, there are signs showing that such a trend is emerging. Among around 1,000 participants, 61% supported the belief that “having children is not mandatory post-marriage.” Data collected last year by the General Statistics Office of Vietnam showed that Vietnamese people were generally growing more reluctant to give birth, with the nation’s fertility rate recorded at 2.01 [children per woman], the lowest point since 2018.Read more at:
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