The problems have psychologically made the parent feel powerless and stressed. In Australia, child care services is a common facility in which children are cared for by someone while parents work, but to many Vietnamese, it is an alien practice. Due to the structure of extended family, the service is one of the multi-services given to all the family members. During the war child care did not exist in the South Vietnam, but after the unification under Communist rule, the new regime established a network of child care services throughout the country. However, in a country where the nutrition, hygiene and health conditions are limited, and the service has provided for a political purpose.
Parents have inevitably a bad image of the child care services.
Vietnamese people from that points feel alienated with the child care services existing in Australia. They feel reluctant to leave their children in the stranger's hands even though they need to work for their resettlement in the new home and to support their relatives still in Vietnam. They feel guilty when they send their young children to child care centres where they are not familiar with and may never have experienced the Australian way of life. Introduction Vietnamese religions and beliefs. Family structure and discipline.