Decision No. 162 Concerning a Number of Population and Family Planning Policies
Annual Review of Population Law 16: 5 290-2
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12344447 Document Number: 383846
This document contains a January 1989 decision of the Council of Ministers of Viet Nam "Concerning a Number of Population and Family Planning [FP] Policies" adopted to reduce the growth rate to 1.7% by 1990. The policies hold that FP is the responsibility of male as well as female citizens and provide categories of people who are permitted to have two children and those who may have three. The child-bearing age of families residing in municipalities, cities, and industrial zones is at least 22 for women and 24 for men. In other areas, the child-bearing age is at least 19 for women and 21 for men. A second child, if any, must be spaced 3-5 years from a first child unless the mother is over 30 when the spacing can be reduced to 2-3 years. Further provisions concern registration and record-keeping, measures for promoting population control and FP through population education and service provision, incentives for having no more than two children, and penalties to be applied to larger families. The policies include provisions to provide treatment for infertile women.