Does the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam allow communist party members to have a third child or more?

Does the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam allow communist party members to have a third child or more?

Recently, the Office of the Central Executive Committee issued Official Dispatch 13421-CV/VPTW in 2025 summarizing the implementation of Resolution 21-NQ/TW on population work in the new situation and amending the regulations of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the State related to population policy.

It includes the content Assigning the Central Inspection Commission to advise, amending the Regulations of the Central Executive Committee, Politburo, Secretariat related to handling violations of population policy and proactively amending Guidance No. 05-HD/TW dated November 22, 2022, of the Central Inspection Commission towards not disciplining communist party members having a third child or more, in line with legal amendments (not retroactive for those who have been disciplined).

Thus, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam assigned the Central Inspection Commission to advise and amend the Regulations related to handling violations of population policy towards not disciplining communist party members having a third child or more. These regulatory amendments need to be consistent with legal amendments.

The Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam allows communist party members to have a third child or more.

Does the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam allow communist party members to have a third child or more? (Image from the Internet)

What are the cases where having a third child by teachers is not considered a violation of population policy in Vietnam?

Under Article 2 Decree 20/2010/ND-CP amended by Article 1 Decree 18/2011/ND-CP, the cases where having a third child by teachers is not considered a violation of population policy in Vietnam include:

- A couple, one or both of whom belongs/ belong to an ethnic minority group with a population of under 10,000 or in danger of population decline (the birthrate is lower than or equal to the mortality rate) as officially announced by the Ministry of Planning and Investment, give birth to their third child.

- A couple who have three or more children at their first birth.

- A couple who already have one natural child and then have two or more children at their second birth.

- A couple who have only one alive natural child, including a child already adopted by others, at the time of giving birth to their third or subsequent child.

- A couple with two children one or both of whom suffers/suffer a non-hereditary malformation or fatal disease certified by a provincial- or central-level medical assessment council, give birth to their third child.

- For a couple who already have their own children:

+ They may have between them one child or two children, if either of them already has his/her own child (children);

+ They may have between them one child or two children or more in the same birth, if both of them already have their own children. This provision is not applicable to a couple having two or more common children who are currently alive.

- An unmarried woman who gives birth to one child or two or more children at the same birth.

- Couples having a third child, if they have two biological children, but one or both children are disabled or have non-hereditary serious diseases, confirmed by the Provincial or Central Medical Assessment Council, including:

What are the rights and obligations of teachers in implementing population policy in Vietnam?

According to Article 10 of the Population Ordinance 2003, the rights and obligations of each teacher in implementing the population movement and family planning, reproductive health care are as follows:

- Decide the timing and spacing of childbirth;

- Have one or two children, except in special cases as prescribed by the Government of Vietnam.

- Protect health, implement measures to prevent reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted diseases