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Hungarian family policy

An Alternative to Demographic Ostrich Policies

‘On average, women are having one less child today than they were having in 1990…A country’s population size is being sustained when its total fertility rate reaches 2.1, but more than half of the world’s countries are below this level…In…
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‘The West will never flourish unless it recovers its Christianity’ — An Interview with Rod Dreher

‘The world is not what you think it is; there is a dimension to reality that modernity denies, but it’s still there and we have to reconnect with it because our own spiritual and cultural survival depends on it. There…

Tackling Demographic Crisis Needs Collective Societal Rejuvenation

‘By rediscovering fundamental needs and values, we will eventually rediscover the need and motivation for having more children. This is a collective project that involves, first of all, ordinary people, philosophers, the church, artists, psychologists, and the government.’…

Fighting a Bleak Future? — Hungary’s Response to Demographic Challenges

In recent decades, Europe has faced many challenges, one of which is the demographic crisis. The ageing and declining population, labour shortages and emigration pose a major challenge for almost all European countries. The importance of demographic trends cannot be…
Children at the renewed Children’s Traffic Park in Budapest’s City Park on the day of the inauguration on 10 May 2024

Asia Times Lauds ‘Hungary’s demographic exceptionalism’

In a recent analysis by Asia Times looking at the effect of government family subsidy programmes on increased fertility rates, Hungary is cited as ’one of the world’s few demographic success stories.’…

Housing and Family Support Policies Resonate Strongly with Hungarians

A recent survey by the Mária Kopp Institute reveals widespread public support for Hungary’s new economic action plan. Policies like housing assistance, a permanent 13th month pension, and doubled family tax benefits are seen as vital by the majority of…
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Family-Centric Thinking Against Global Population Decline

‘In the East, the communist worldview largely rejected the nuclear family unit, seeing it rather as an economic unit that ideologically furthered capitalist interests. In the West, a notion emerged in the latter twentieth century that largely views prioritizing family…
Portrait of Karl Polanyi taken on 31 December 1917 (photographer unknown)

A Conservative View on Laissez faire Economics

Policies such as pro-family tax cuts, housing programmes, child benefits etc., all resulting in a kind of family income system that aims to reduce the harm inflicted on families by a Ricardian conception of the economy (which, obviously, cannot be…
Motherhood -- illustration (Pixabay)

In Hungary Mothers Are Valued Not Just on Mother’s Day

There are 3.13 million mothers in Hungary who have given birth to a total of 6.22 million children during their lifetime, meaning that Hungarian mothers have two children on average. Since the early 2000s, about three-quarters of adult women are…
A family of four sitting at the top of a mountain (illustration, Pixabay)

People All Over the World Vote for Family

‘Family is not the cause, but the solution to climate change. A European study conducted in 2021 by the Mária Kopp Institute for Demography and Families (KINCS) found that large families live more environmentally conscious and pay more attention to…

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