Hungarians maintain a good relationship with their father: around two-thirds of them talk to him every day, 72 percent share their joys, and every second person shares their sorrows with their father - the Mária Kopp Institute for Population and Families (Kincs) announced on Friday, MTI on the occasion of Father's Day.
According to the announcement, both women and men have an equally good relationship with their father: 64 percent of women and 61 percent of men talk to him every day or almost every day. 18-29-year-olds talk to them most often (69 percent), the proportion of 50-65-year-olds is 48 percent, they wrote.
They added: mainly young people turn to their fathers when they are sad (53 percent), older people less so (28 percent).
The father of 37 percent of the participants in the research is alive, 14 percent of them said that it became closer during the coronavirus epidemic, and three quarters of them said that their relationship with their father did not change, they explained, adding that it was especially important for respondents over 50 years old to keep in touch with their elderly father, as they belong to the vulnerable age group.
It was reported that 11 percent of those with one child had an improved relationship with their father, and 28 percent of those with large families reported a positive change.
The survey also revealed that Father's Day, which originated in America, is not yet well known in Hungary: less than a third of respondents know when it is, mainly women have heard of it, and only one in four respondents greets their father on the occasion of the holiday.
Father's Day is celebrated in Hungary on the third Sunday of June, commemorating the importance of fathers, foster fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers, as not only mothers, but also fathers have an outstanding role in the family in terms of healthy personality development, the announcement reads.
The research was conducted by interviewing a thousand adults by telephone on May 20-23. between.
MTI
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