Family planning quotas, a country’s limit on the number of children a family is allowed to have, are often cited as a reason children are available for international adoption. For example, adoption service providers often refer to China’s so-called “one child” policy when explaining to prospective adoptive parents why children, especially girls, are placed for adoption from that country.
In Vietnam, families have been legally allowed to have two children, although those laws were somewhat loosely enforced. If citizens had more than two children, they may have been forced to pay hefty fines to the government. According to VietNamNet, new regulations were recently released in Vietnam which would allow certain families to have three children. The article says:
New regulations on birth control amending the Population Ordinance issued by the Government on March 8 will permit seven cases of family circumstance to have three children as opposed to the previous quota of two.
Couples who give birth to triplets, that have a child and give birth to two or more babies during the second birth and those who give birth to a third child after a previous child died or was put up for adoption, will be exempt from birth control penalties.
Those whose one or two children are confirmed by local or central medical examination councils to be disabled or suffer from nonhereditary fatal illnesses will also be permitted to a third baby. The Ministry of Health has issued a list of fatal cases that will be affected by the new decree.
Ethnic groups with a population of less than 10,000 or with a birth rate lower or equal to their death rate will be allowed to have three children. The Government has asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment to publicise the name of those ethnic groups.
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