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Prevalence and Patterns of Divorce in Vietnam: Tradition, Modernity, and Individualism
Tran Thi Minh Thi
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2016.03.010
Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
In Vietnam, divorce traditionally was considered scandalous for women, so there was a strong pressure against divorce, especially for women. While divorce has long been culturally discouraged and limited, divorce has been rapidly increasing after the renovation policy in late 1980s with alternative causes, consequences, etc. Modernization is a process of transforming “traditional” society to “modern” one, in order to achieve economic development and growth, to innovate politics and to enhance their social structure towards a political, social, and economic system similar to those of western developed countries. In the field of marriage, family, and kinship, modernization process experiences the maintenance of traditional values and the appearance of the new modern values. This paper aims to examine trend and correlates of divorce and to identify social and cultural factors influencing the divorce decision, using data of divorce profiles of one district court in 10 years (i.e., 2000-2009) with total divorce profiles analyzed are 2,033 cases, of which 499 divorce couples in a rural district and 1,534 divorced couples in an urban area.
divorce, incidence, causes, Vietnam, tradition, modernity, modernization, collectivism, familialism, individualism
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