"The children in the family" is an outstanding short story by Nguyen Thi. The work was written in the hardest years of the war against the American Anny. In the dead - or - alive fight of our nation, the writer (Nguyen Thi) estimates the war under his cultural view and explains that the strength of our nation to gain victory over American Anny was orginated from the traditional culture of Vietnamese families. Therefore, the writer excellently reflects the hardship of the war, and at the same time expreses the belief and optimism of Vietnamese in the war.