Vietnam Two-Child Policy

Two child policy is a population policy that is implemented by the Vietnamese government to control the birth rate of the country and limit the number of children in a family. In Vietnam, this policy commenced very early in the 1960s and stopped in 2003. However, as the population boomed dramatically after this abolishment, the Vietnamese government debated whether to re-implement this policy and it was so in 2008. The reason why the authorities applied these actions is to stop the rapid expansion of the population. Also, the government expects that with only one or two children in the family, the parents can have a better condition to take care of their sons and daughters in health, education and personal development.  
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Nevertheless, the policies also cause some serious issues to the development of the society and population. The most critical problem is the imbalance in  gender ratio between boys and girls in many areas, mostly rural and mountain ones, where the perspective to “respect boy, disrespect girls” still exist. Especially in some remote areas, if the families who fill the children “quotas” but still want to have another baby boy, they might abandon their baby girls in the forest or even kill them to guarantee the limitation of the two child policy. Consequently, in Vietnam, baby boys outnumber baby girl by a significant rate, and that leads to the unequal number between male and female in the population.