This article tries to clarify the diversity of family forms in industrial perspective in present day Vietnam, such as: Nuclear family, extended family, family at husband’s home, family at wife’s home and making a separate home. That means the assumption that Vietnamese families will converge to conjugal family as Goode’s conclusion is not true. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE OF HNUE 2011 Vol. 56 N . 1 pp. 56-65 VIETNAMESE FAMILIES IN TRANSITION Nguyen Thanh Binh Hanoi National University of Education E-mail binh1980gdct@ Abstract. Vietnam is now undergoing the process of industrialization and modernization. Everything is changing and Vietnamese families are no ex- ception. This article tries to clarify the diversity of family forms in industrial perspective in present day Vietnam such as nuclear family extended fam- ily family at husband s home family at wife s home and making a separate home. That means the assumption that Vietnamese families will converge to conjugal family as Goode s conclusion is not true. Keyword Nuclear family Extended family Family at wifes home Making a separate home Family at husbands home Vietnamese transition. 1. Introduction Over recent years the subject of family has drawn the attention not only of social researchers but also of the government and other social organizations. Indeed In recent years the family has become the object of intense public interest 3 12 family has become an increasingly important question within the political parties parliament the feminist movement and indeed among the public at large 11 18 . Already Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote a lot of pages in their works to talk about family The German ideology The Communist Manifesto etc. They asserted that families were a cell of society took part in every productive process from commodity production to consumption from giving birth to new generations to fostering and educating people. A Resolution adopted by the Tenth Communist Party Congress has affirmed shaping a family of comfort equality progress happi- ness. The family is home for every person is an important environment for taking form nurturing and educating of the people 1 103-104 . Rebuilding and recovering from the war is in the Vietnamese political discourse called renovation Doi Moi in Vietnamese of the country. In the renovation of the .
