Rising divorce rate sees more street kids in Ho Chi Minh City
HANOI - With Ho Chi Minh City's divorce rate
increasing in recent years, more kids make a home on streets of
the Vietnamese city.
Ho Chi Minh City had more than 11,700 divorce cases in 2000, up
about 12 percent since 1990, according to a report of the local
daily Vietnam News on Tuesday.
Explaining the trend of divorce among young couples, Nguyen
Minh Hoa of the Ho Chi Minh City Teacher College, who studied 5,
000 divorce cases, offered that young couples have to face big
challenges during the first five years of marriage. The hectic
lifestyles they undertake produce many problems.
Working and studying to fulfill their ambitions leave almost no
time for them to take care of each other and their children, she
added. Instead, couples become angry and withdrawn due to fatigue
and stress.
As a result, many more couples have separated after having
children. However, children are dealt the hardest blow in divorce
cases. More than 29 percent of juvenile delinquents come from
broken home.
According to the city's Committee for Population, Family and
Children (CPFC), the city's number of juvenile delinquents was 6,
300 in 2000, a sharp rise from only 1,311 in 1991.
To encourage people to pay more attention to children, the
Vietnam Committee for Child Care and Protection is organizing
programs to prepare for National Family Day on June 28 which will
be celebrated every year.
The committee aims to co-ordinate authorities, offices,
organizations and individuals throughout the country to work
jointly for all children's happiness.
Xinhuanet - June 11, 2002
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