A declining birth rate led lawmakers to approve a new policy on Tuesday that lifts the limit on the number of children many families may have.

With much misinformation prevailing across immigrant communities about autism, Vietnamese parents raising children with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Vietnam scraps Two-Child policy The decline in birth rates was from 2.11 children per woman in 2021, down to 2.01 in 2022 and 1.96 in 2023. Updated - June 04, 2025 08:36 am IST - Hanoi AFP READ LATER ...

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 ...

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