{"id":72121,"date":"2025-06-04T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/04\/vietnam-two-child-policy-end-falling-birthrate"},"modified":"2025-06-04T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:30:09","slug":"vietnam-scraps-two-child-policy-as-it-tackles-falling-birthrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72121","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam scraps two-child policy as it tackles falling birthrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities seek to increase number of births amid fear ageing society could threaten economic growth plans<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam has scrapped a longstanding policy limiting families to two children, as the communist-run country grapples with a declining birthrate.<\/p>\n<p>State media announced on Wednesday that couples could make their own decisions about how many children to have, and how much time to wait between births, reversing a decades-old preference for one- or two-child families.<\/p>\n<p><em>AFP contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/04\/vietnam-two-child-policy-end-falling-birthrate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities seek to increase number of births amid fear ageing society could threaten economic growth plansVietnam has scrapped a longstanding policy limiting families to two children, as the communist-run country grapples with a declining birthrate.St&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,706,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-population","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72122,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72121\/revisions\/72122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}