Vietnam going door-to-door with a wedding ring
HANOI - Communist and conservative
Vietnam, alarmed by nearly a million unmarried
cohabiting couples, is offering wedding licenses
door to door to make it easier for people to tie
the knot.
Vietnam, with a population of 80 million, had an
estimated 929,319 unmarried couples living
together last year, according to a nationwide
survey.
So far this year, the ``fast-track'' mobile
licensing and propaganda campaigns had
persuaded 420,982 couples to get hitched,
state media reported.
``Cohabitation before marriage is totally
unacceptable now and always will be,'' said Pham Thi Thuy Huong,
from the non-government Vietnam Family Planning Association.
Reuters - March 28, 2003.
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