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The Maria Kopp Institute took part in the Gombaszög Summer Camp, the 32nd Tusványos summer open university and camp in Bálványos Transylvania, the MCC Festival in Esztergom and Tranzit festival in Tihany.
Every Hungarian child is a treasure, wherever they are born in the world, according to 85 percent of Hungarians – among others, this was revealed by the most recent representative survey of the Mária Kopp Institute for Demography and Families (KINCS). 83% of respondents believe that a common mother tongue and culture connects all Hungarians. The survey, conducted on a sample of 1,000 people, focused on issues related to Hungarians living beyond the borders.
Hungary stands for the protection of families. This has been our policy focus each and every day since 2010 - not just on the day of families," said Tünde Fűrész at a press conference on the occasion of the International Day of the Family. She added that the family is the smallest and most important fundamental unit of society, and something currently threatened by three factors: depopulation, the crisis of values - many people nowadays want to relativise the family - and the economic crisis caused by war.
In recent weeks, new plans to resettle migrants have emerged at EU decision-making levels, all the while the negative ramifications of misguided immigration policies have never been more evident. It has become very clear that migration is not the solution to Europe's demographic problems; despite the waves of large-scale immigration in recent years, the birth rate in Europe is falling and the number of children born to parents with immigrant background is also falling.
Parents gave schools a good report card, with more than 60 percent of the 130,000 respondents to a parent questionnaire giving their child's school a "4" or "5" (B or A grading), meaning they are satisfied with the teaching and learning work done there. The results were presented by the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior in Budapest on Thursday.
In 1994, the United Nations designated 15 May as the "International Day of the Family". The initiative draws attention to the family as the most important unit of our society. The Fundamental Law of Hungary protects the institution of marriage as a commitment between one man and one woman, based on voluntary consent, and the family as the foundation of national existence. The family relationship is based on marriage and the parent-child relationship. The mother is a woman, the father a man.
