Ministry of Health proposes not to discipline party members who have a third child

Speaking to reporters, Mr. Le Thanh Dung, Director of the Department of Population, Ministry of Health, gave the above information.

According to the Director of the Department of Population, the Ministry of Health is reviewing population policies, and at the same time developing a report on the current situation and trends of fertility in Vietnam and proposing policies in the draft Law on Population. Among them, there is a policy on maintaining replacement fertility to firmly maintain replacement fertility nationwide, especially in the context of the fertility rate in our country has been continuously decreasing in recent years.

Mr. Le Thanh Dung said that this proposal is just one of many solutions to maintain the replacement fertility rate nationwide, avoiding further decline in fertility. Specifically, the basic policy groups built in the draft Population Law include: maintaining the replacement fertility rate; reducing gender imbalance at birth and bringing the sex ratio at birth back to the natural balance; adapting to population aging and aging population; distributing the population reasonably; improving population health; and integrating population factors into socio-economic development plans.

With the policy of maintaining the replacement fertility rate, it is built in the direction of: The Government stipulates specific support measures and policies suitable for each period and the economic and social development conditions of the country; People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities submit to competent authorities or issue under their authority policies and solutions to support and encourage the maintenance of the replacement fertility rate in the area, suitable for the economic and social development conditions of the locality; prioritize policy beneficiaries, ethnic minority areas, disadvantaged areas, border areas, and islands. Regulate the rights of couples and individuals in giving birth, the time of giving birth, the number of children and the interval between births; and at the same time, stipulate obligations.of each couple, individual in giving birthchild

"For a long time, the disciplinary regulation on having a third child has not been applied to the people. For party members who have a third child, the Ministry of Health is proposing that the competent authority issue a document to abolish or suspend the validity of the regulation on the number of children of Decree No. 08/2008/PL-UBTVQH12 amending Article 10 of Decree No. 06/2023/PL-UBTVQH1, amending Instruction No. 05-HD/UBKTTW dated November 22, 2022 guiding the implementation of a number of articles in Regulation No. 69-QD/TW in the direction of not taking disciplinary action for cases of giving birth to 3 or more children," said Mr. Dung.

According to the Ministry of Health, there are a number of reasons for the declining birth rate in recent years: due to improved living conditions, increasingly improved education, the need to develop one's own career, especially women of childbearing age, looking for better jobs to have higher income and better quality of life, and at the same time enjoying life and the fruits of development more, have had an impact on slowing down, delaying marriage, the need to have children, the time to have children, having enough 2 children of young people, of couples.

The economic pressure on a young family such as living expenses, costs of renting or buying a house, costs of raising and educating children from birth to adulthood are increasingly high, also causing many young couples to consider and choose to have children late, have few children or not have children...

When the birth rate is low, it will cause many consequences, including: labor shortage, population decline, accelerated population aging, increased migration flows (due to low birth rate, labor shortage affects migration policies, increasing migration flows, attracting immigrant workers)...