Teenage mothers in Andhra Pradesh face challenges due to early marriage, poverty, and limited opportunities for education and ...

Sociologists echo concerns about costs, estimating that raising a child from birth to age 22 costs 10 to 20 million Vietnamese dong ($380 to $760) per month — more than the average monthly income.

The country’s communist government introduced the two-child policy in 1988 to ensure it had adequate resources as it transitioned from a planned to a market economy. At the time, Vietnam was ...

Many children like him speak English as if it were their mother tongue but feel shy or unable to speak Vietnamese fluently. When speaking to me in Vietnamese, he admits he is not good at it. The real ...

Vietnam has scrapped its long-standing two-child policy as birth rates fall and its population ages. Lawmakers approved changes Tuesday that now let couples decide how many children to have.

A billboard in Ho Chi Minh City in 2024 encourages families to have two children in an effort to improve Vietnam's birth rate. Now, the country has lifted its two-child limit. (Jae C. Hong/AP) ...

The move responded to a record-low birth rate that has persisted below population replacement levels for three years, ...

Vietnamese families are having fewer children than ever before. The birth rate in 2021 was 2.11 children per woman, just over the replacement rate required for a population to avoid shrinking over ...

Birth rates in Vietnam aren’t falling evenly. In Ho Chi Minh City — the country’s biggest city and economic hub — the fertility rate in 2024 was just 1.39 children per woman, much lower ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam abolished its long-standing two-child limit Tuesday to try and reverse declining birth rates and ease the pressures of an aging population. The National Assembly ...

Vietnam introduced rules blocking families from having more than two children in 1988 to reduce pressure on limited resources after years of war, first with France and then the United States, as ...