Equality is one of the important factors to preserve family happiness. Illustration: Internet.
On May 4, 2001, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 72/2001/QD-TTg on Vietnamese Family Day. The decision states: taking June 28 every year as the Vietnamese Family Day, in order to uphold the leadership responsibility of all levels, branches, mass organizations and social organizations, together with the family, who regularly pay attention to building happy, equal, progressive, happy family, etc. Over many generations, the Vietnamese families in general and the Capital families in particular have been formed and developed with good value standards, contributing to the building of national cultural identity. Precious values have promoted throughout the history of nation building and defense. Through many development periods, family structure and relationships have changed, however, the basic function of the family exists and the family is still an important and indispensable factor in socio-economic development of the country and the capital.
Along with the development of the country, over time, Vietnamese Family Day has gradually become a festival in all regions of the Organization, a cultural beauty – where love and sharing are honored.
With its position as the national political-administrative center, a major center of culture, education, science, technology, economy and international transactions of the whole country; cultural values of Hanoi, including family values with characteristics of convergence, crystallization and diffusion; become an important resource for Hanoi to become a civilized and heroic capital. In the process of socio-economic development; Party committees and authorities at all levels of the city always attach great importance to family affairs.
According to Ms. Le Thi Thien Huong – the Vice Chairwoman of the Hanoi Women’s Union, as a representative organization to protect the legitimate rights and interests of all classes of women, the Hanoi Women’s Union always determines the work “Advocating and supporting women to build prosperous, progressive, happy and civilized families” which is one of the key and cross-cutting mission. Therefore, the emulation movements, campaigns, programs and projects of the Association are all aimed at supporting women to build a prosperous, progressive and happy family.
Ms. Le Thi Thien Huong, Vice Chairwoman of Hanoi Women’s Union spoke at the conference. Photo by Thien Tam.
In particular, the campaign “Building families with 5 no’s and 3 clean’s” in the National Target Program on building new rural areas has focused on supporting women synchronously and comprehensively with specific criteria, both bring practical benefits to women themselves, their families and the community, and is an appropriate activity for women to participate in building new rural areas and building civilized cities.
Many models of communication and advocacy to support building a happy, civilized and cultural family “5 no’s, 3 clean’s”, child care and protection have been implemented effectively. The number of households achieving the title of cultural family, happy civilized family and “5 no’s, 3 clean’s “ family is increasing, many health care activities for women and children, planned population family is getting more and more attention. In addition, the prevention and control of domestic violence, abuse of women and children, and ensuring the safety of women and children from within the family are increasingly focused. In addition, the activities of supporting women to develop the family economy achieved good results, making an important contribution to improving the quality of life, taking care of practical benefits for members and women, creating favourable conditions for support women to improve their position and role in the family and society.
The activities to respond to the 20th anniversary of Vietnamese Family Day this year take place at a special time when the COVID-19 pandemic is still complicated, affecting the lives of many families, but also during the pandemic, it is also the time when families spread love, sympathy, sharing, the spirit of mutual affection, make efforts together to overcome difficulties with the spirit of “fighting the pandemic like fighting the enemy”. Husbands, wives, and mothers are willing to temporarily put aside the joy and happiness of their families to participate in the frontline duties against the pandemic.
According to Ms. Le Thi Thien Huong, the organization of online communication with the content “Building and preserving family happiness in the 4.0 era” aims to share the secret of preserving family happiness, spreading love and sharing, the responsibility of family members and overcome the COVID-19 pandemic together, cultivate more values to have more happy families.
Women in Yen My commune, Thanh Tri district attend an online conference.
Also at the conference, MA. Hoa Huu Van, Member of the Advisory Group on Gender Equality, Family and Children of the Vietnam Women’s Union, former Deputy Director of the Family Department, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has provided facts and secrets to resolve conflicts, build and maintain family happiness.
Mr. Hoa Huu Van said that, in the 4.0 era, life is bustling with opportunities to make a living, children rush into the race to learn and equip themselves with everything to promptly develop and have many opportunities for themselves. The pace of life becomes as busy as the wheel of a machine that cannot slow down and stop. Family members rarely communicate directly with each other, loving moments in the family which are deprived.
“According to statistics, 62% of parents in the North and 57.7% of parents in the South spend up to 30 minutes a day to chat or entertain with their children. This shows that the family connection is increasingly loose. Therefore, members need to balance work and relationships to spend time with family, thereby connecting and sharing,” said Master Hoa Huu Van.
According to Mr. Hoa Huu Van, from 2017 to 2020, on average, Vietnam has 600,000 divorce cases each year. More than 40% of the causes of conflicts between husband and wife are due to “trifles” things. “Happiness is eroded by “nothing considerable” things happening every day. Many people think that relatives are easy to tolerate, easy to do, so it is easy to “forget” how to choose words, how to behave delicately and properly… To resolve conflicts, couples need to know organizational skills, division of labor, know how to give compliments to the opponent at the right time. Equality is one of the important factors to maintain family happiness, helping members bond with each other through common daily tasks in the family. When a conflict occurs, put it in the position of the other person to understand and share, thereby resolving the conflict.
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