Vietnamese family life

Vietnamese Family Life
Family structure
Parent-child relationship
Changes in Vietnamese families
The family is the basic institution in society; it perpetuates society and protects the individual.
Family structure
Vietnamese family structure is more complex than that of the American family.
In the Vietnamese family roles are more numerous and more fined than in its American counterpart.
Family structure
Family structure
Vietnamese parent consider it a most important responsibility to train their student.
The parent will bear the disgrace brought about by the activities of children who dishonor themselves just as they share the honor and fame of their virtuous and talented children.
Parent-child relationship
At an early age, children are taught by their parents to behave according to the principle of filial piety.
The family is the school in which the child learns the respect rule in both behavior and linguistic response.
Parent-child relationship
Filial piety
loving
respecting
obeying one’s parents
consists of
* Talking back or acting contrary to the wishes of one’s parents is evidence of lack of filial piety.
Parent-child relationship
For the Vietnamese, the obligation to obey his parents does not end with coming of age or marriage.
Filial piety also means solicitude and support to one’s parents, chiefly in their old age.
Parent-child relationship
Vietnamese elderly people never live by themselves or in nursing homes but with one of their children, usually their eldest son.
This obligation is not discontinued by the parents’ death.
It survives in the form of ancestral cult and the maintenance tombs.
Parent-child relationship
Ancestor worship is practiced in most, if not all, Vietnamese homes even in the homes of Vietnamese people living overseas.
Parent-child relationship
What is the parent-child relationship in Vietnamese family?
Question
Every society on the family.
- Nuclear families :
two generation families
- Extended families:
grandparents, parents, and children live together.
Changes in Vietnamese families
Traditional Vietnamese family
Modern Vietnamese family
In the old days, there are only extended families in which women have no right to decide family affairs, and children always obey their parents.
However, there are a lot of changes in Vietnamese families nowadays.
Change in Vietnamese families
- The change in the size of a family.
+ In a typical Vietnamese family, there are three or four generations living together.
+ Now young people tend to nuclear families in which they don’t want to be controlled by anybody.
Changes in Vietnamese families
- The change in the size of a family.
+ Some young couple don’t want to see their parent very often because they think that their parents may interfere with their marital affairs.
+ Now, every family often has one or two children.
Changes in Vietnamese families
Women:
+ Women usually have the same rights as man.
+ More and more women go out to work, and they can delay having children with the help of modern science.
+ Women can decide everything in the family together with their husbands.
Changes in Vietnamese families
+ Children also have more freedom.
Children:
+ They seem not always to obey their parents.
+ They can do what they like. When their parents complain about their ways of living or thinking, they usually say that their parents are old-fashioned..
Changes in Vietnamese families
Vietnamese families now are quite different from those in the past.
Changes in Vietnamese families
1. Who do Vietnamese elderly people live with?
Vietnamese elderly people never live by themselves or in nursing homes but with one of their children, usually their eldest son.
2. Mention changes in Vietnamese families.
+ the change in the size of a family.
+ The women’s role
+ Children also have more freedom.
Question
4. Compare families in American, Britain and Vietnamese. Which one would you prefer?
Question
1. How many people are there in your family? Are you living in the same house?
2.What is a nuclear family? What is the different between a nuclear family and an extended family?
3. How is your life different from your parent’s and your grandfather’s lives? What do your parent’s think of family?
Discussion
4. Do you get among well with your family? Do you get along well with your brothers and sister?
5.Is it true that “ a rolling stone gathers no moss”? Do you think changes are good?what do you think of changes in Vietnamese families? What are causes of fast family changes?
discussion
6. Do you think family is the foundation, motivation and encouragement for you get success in life? Do you have a cope with difficulties in your own family?
7. Right now, do you live in the nuclear family or in an extended one? What do you think your family life will be like in the future?
8. According to you, which factors are the most important in maintain a happy family?
discussion