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According to the old custom, after checking the family annals, avoiding the profanation of taboo names (name of a child is same as the name of ancestors); the newborn child is officially given a name.
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It has some difficulties for the wife when she is pregnant and has baby at the first time. The first-born baby custom means the wife come back to her family to have the first-born baby, and from the second child she stays at her husband’s family.
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In Vietnam, there are three main kinds of adopted child: formal adopted child, symbolic adopted child and pretended adopted child.
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There are many reasons why Vietnamese do not name their newborn babies when they were born. The reasons are belief, olden government policy in the old society and family customs.
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In Vietnamese customs, there are a lot of superstitions related to the newborn baby after birth.