While European nations languish with rapidly
declining birthrates, Hungary stands out with rising marriage rates, falling
abortions, and its highest birthrate in 20 years, Breitbart reports.
Marriage is up by 43 percent since 2010, while
divorce has dropped by 22.5 percent in the same period.
This demographic turnaround has not been an
accident, but the fruit of deliberate programs to promote marriage and the
family while defending Hungary’s cultural identity and Christian roots.
“After we won the election in 2010 with a
two-thirds majority, we decided to build a family-friendly country and to
strengthen families raising children”, said Hungary’s Minister for the Family,
Catalan Novak.
Standing firm in its position despite fierce
opposition from the socialist left, the Orbán government enacted legislation
resulting in “a comprehensive family-support system, a family-friendly tax
system, a housing program, 800,000 new jobs, and many opportunities to create a
balance between life and work”, Ms. Novak stated.
“We are living in times when fewer and fewer
children are being born throughout Europe. People in the West are responding to
this with immigration”, Prime Minister Orbán said at the State of the Nation
address in Budapest in February.
“Hungarians see this in a different light. We
do not need numbers, but Hungarian children”, the Fidesz party leader added.
The new law will come into effect July 1 and
includes pro-family incentives such as a 3,000 euro mortgage reduction for a
second child, a 12,000 euro reduction for a third child, a car-purchasing
program for large families, and comprehensive daycare.
As of 2020, mothers with four or more children
will enjoy a lifetime personal income tax exemption.
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