Hungary's policies seem to be working--births up 9.4 %

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Exclusive Comments: Hungary’s Pro-Family Policy Is Working, Births Up 9.4 Per Cent​

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...family-policy-working-births-up-9-4-per-cent/
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by Jack Montgomery
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The pro-family policies pursued by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s government as an alternative to mass immigration are reaping dividends, with births up 9.4 per cent year on year.

Eduard von Habsburg, the Central European country’s ambassador to the Holy See — and great-great-grandson of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary — reported that the “much-ridiculed” policies were also accompanied by a near-100 per cent increase in marriages and the number of children per woman rising to an average of 1.6.

“In Hungary, the population has been decreasing since 1981,” said Katalin Novák, Hungary’s State Secretary for Family, Youth, and International Affairs, in exclusive comments to Breitbart London explaining the enormity of the turnaround her government has achieved.

“In 2010, when [Orbán’s Fidesz party] won the elections with a two-thirds majority after eight years of socialist, anti-work, anti-economy, and anti-family governance, our country was at the brink of collapse,” she recalled, citing “austerity packages and the dismantling of the family benefit system”.

“In 2010, we started to build a family-friendly country… Our main goal is to eliminate the burdens that couples face when they would like to have children,” she said, highlighting policies including “lifelong exemption from personal income tax for women with four children”, partial mortgage write-offs for families after the birth of their second child, and grandparental leave.

“The recent demographic figures speak for themselves, the number of marriages is at its 40-year high, the fertility rate at its 20-year high, while the divorces haven’t been as low as last year in the last six decades,” she added proudly.

Ready for some good news? The (much-ridiculed) Hungarian family politics is showing results! in January 2020 9.4 % more births than last year, almost 100% more marriages, and children per woman from 1.4 to 1.6!https://t.co/Ezhbs0W2GI

— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) April 3, 2020

The State Secretary, herself a mother of three, was forthright when pressed to comment on the past remarks of outlets such as the left-liberal Economist magazine, which rubbished the Hungarian government’s aspirations to arrest its demographic decline through so-called natalist policies rather than mass immigration, as Western European countries such as Britain, Germany, and Sweden have attempted.

“The Hungarian point of view is that we have to rely on our internal resources, namely supporting families and enabling young couples to have children. The other approach says that there is overpopulation in one half of the world, while there is a population decline in the other, so let’s just simply balance the difference”, she said, offering a concise summary of the current state of the debate.

“[W]e are lectured and stigmatised simply because we took a path that is different from the mainstream… [and] exposed to continuous attacks for years, but facts are facts, our results are clear and we also enjoy the support of Hungarian people,” she said.

“I read the critics and the pessimistic predictions of Economist in February, now, I would be pleased to read at least the recognition of the facts, the obvious positive demographic figures in recent months,” she added, in what may prove to be a forlorn hope.

Ms Novák also offered a tactful rebuke to the Swedish government, which took the extraordinary decision to summon the Hungarian ambassador when the most recent package of pro-family policies were announced, claiming they “reeked of the 1930s”.

“After the outrageous statement of their family minister, many Swedish people assured me that they would very much welcome such a a supportive pro-family policy package in their own country,” said Novák.

“I won’t teach lessons to other governments but I await them to give us the same respect.”

Viktor Orbán Proclaims ‘Hungary First’ in State-of-the-Nation Speech https://t.co/BNFEZ1Vrkg

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 17, 2020

 

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Hungary moves to prohibit promotion of homosexuality, transgenderism to children​

Parliament will vote on a bill banning 'content that depicts sexuality for its own sake, or promotes or displays deviations from the identity of the sex of birth, gender reassignment or homosexuality.'

Mon Jun 14, 2021 - 7:08 pm EST
By Raymond Wolfe

BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Hungarian parliament has prepared a bill that would prohibit showing pornographic content or material that encourages homosexuality and transgenderism to minors under 18.

The measure, proposed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s ruling Fidesz party, explicitly bans “content that depicts sexuality for its own sake, or promotes or displays deviations from the identity of the sex of birth, gender reassignment or homosexuality.”

The legal amendment was added to sweeping legislation against pedophilia that is set for a vote on Tuesday. Fidesz holds a super-majority in the Hungarian legislature.

LGBT ideology in schools, as well as in advertisements and other mass media, effectively would be banned under the anti-pedophilia bill, which also creates new provisions for sexual education, such as a list of approved sex-ed organizations.

Hungary has ramped up efforts to protect the majority-Christian nation’s traditional values and heritage from left-wing, pro-LGBT activism in recent years. In December, the government adopted changes to the national constitution, defining the family as “based on marriage and the parent-child relation.”

“The mother is a woman, the father is a man,” the amendment, which prohibits same-sex adoption, declared. It added that “Hungary defends the right of children to identify with their birth gender and ensures their upbringing based on our nation's constitutional identity and values based on our Christian culture.”

Earlier this year, authorities also mandated disclaimers for pro-LGBT books targeting children. Orbán had denounced LGBT indoctrination of children last May as a “red line not to cross.” “To sum up my opinion: leave our children alone,” he said.

Hungary additionally has eliminated “Gender Studies” programs in state-run universities and enacted a law requiring recognition of citizens based on immutable sex rather than “gender identity,” though that law was partly curtailed in court in March.

Joe Biden, who appeared at a NATO summit on Monday, previously smeared the elected governments of Hungary and neighboring Poland, both NATO allies, as “totalitarian regimes.”