{"id":205431,"date":"2020-04-10T06:39:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=205431"},"modified":"2020-04-12T07:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T07:42:44","slug":"hungarys-pro-family-policy-is-working-births-up-9-4-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=205431","title":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s Pro-Family Policy Is Working, Births Up 9.4 Per Cent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jack Montgomery \u2013 Breibart.com April 8, 2020<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-205432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hungarians-640x480-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hungarians-640x480-1.png 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hungarians-640x480-1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The pro-family policies pursued by Hungarian prime minister Viktor\u00a0Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government as an alternative to mass immigration are reaping dividends, with births up 9.4 per cent year on year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Eduard von Habsburg, the Central European country\u2019s ambassador to the Holy See \u2014 and\u00a0great-great-grandson of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary \u2014 reported that the \u201cmuch-ridiculed\u201d 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIn Hungary, the population has been decreasing since 1981,\u201d said Katalin Nov\u00e1k, Hungary\u2019s State Secretary for Family, Youth, and International Affairs, in exclusive comments to Breitbart London explaining the enormity of the turnaround her government has achieved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIn 2010, when [Orb\u00e1n\u2019s 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,\u201d she recalled, citing \u201causterity packages and the dismantling of the family benefit system\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIn 2010, we started to build a family-friendly country\u2026 Our main goal is to eliminate the burdens that couples face when they would like to have children,\u201d she said, highlighting policies including \u201clifelong exemption from personal income tax for women with four children\u201d, partial mortgage write-offs for families after the birth of their second child, and grandparental leave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe 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\u2019t been as low as last year in the last six decades,\u201d she added proudly.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ezhbs0W2GI\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ezhbs0W2GI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EduardHabsburg\/status\/1246022453844938752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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 <em>Economist<\/em> magazine, which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2019\/02\/16\/viktor-orbans-plans-to-boost-hungarys-birth-rate-are-unlikely-to-work\">rubbished<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the Hungarian government\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe 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\u2019s just simply balance the difference\u201d, she said, offering a concise summary of the current state of the debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201c[W]e are lectured and stigmatised simply because we took a path that is different from the mainstream\u2026 [and] exposed to continuous attacks for years, but facts are facts, our results are clear and we also enjoy the support of Hungarian people,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI read the critics and the pessimistic predictions of <em>Economist<\/em> in February, now, I would be pleased to read at least the recognition of the facts, the obvious positive demographic figures in recent months,\u201d she added, in what may prove to be a forlorn hope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ms\u00a0Nov\u00e1k 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 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/sverigesradio.se\/sida\/artikel.aspx?artikel=7159131\">\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>reeked of the 1930s<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cAfter 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,\u201d said Nov\u00e1k.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI won\u2019t teach lessons to other governments but I await them to give us the same respect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">Viktor Orb\u00e1n Proclaims \u2018Hungary First\u2019 in State-of-the-Nation Speech <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BNFEZ1Vrkg\">https:\/\/t.co\/BNFEZ1Vrkg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1229489944562978816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/04\/08\/exclusive-hungarys-pro-family-policy-working-births-up-9-4-per-cent\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of marriages is at a 40-year high, the fertility rate at a 20-year high, while the divorces haven\u2019t been as low as last year in the last six decades<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205434,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205431\/revisions\/205434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}