Gift money for Tet is a long-standing Vietnamese tradition. On the most important holiday of the year, adults give children colorful envelopes with a certain amount inside and then take them away. Indeed, what is a child to do with a million dong if he is five or eight? But not all lawyers agree with this.
Back in December, the media (one of which even belongs to the Ministry of Culture) began to research Vietnamese laws, trying to find out how right parents are doing. And such an act was found.
It turned out to be a 2013 decree on sanctions for administrative offenses. According to him, "lucky money" is the property of one of the family members. And for her "capture" parents can get a fine of 500 thousand - 1 million VND. True, the law applies only to children over 15 years old. And only those high school students who did not consent to "financial violence."
It would seem that it sounds reasonable - at the age of 15, a teenager should already have a need for his own money. But on the website of Thanh Nien newspaper outraged voices of parents were heard. They are afraid that such laws will make family relationships look like market ones. And they claim that they take money from children only because they are too young to manage it.
Read on our website about other New Year traditions of Vietnam.
Source: Saigoneer. Translation: Nikita Grebennikov.
