Today is World Population Day, on the occasion of which the Mária Kopp Institute for Population and Families (KINCS) conducted research, which shows that Hungarians still see the future in the family and children.
Research shows that those who raise more children take a more responsible approach to shaping the future, including the protection of our natural values, says the institute's announcement.
Hungarians see the biggest problem in the aging population (82 percent), in relationships that are not stable enough (81 percent), in the birth of few children (78 percent), and in the fact that young people are having children late (68 percent) . Only every tenth respondent (12 percent) feels that there are not enough immigrants who could help stop the decline of the population - the results of their recent research are presented.
They also point out that out of the three options for solving the population situation (1. birth of more children, 2. immigration, 3. increase in life expectancy), eight out of ten respondents put the birth of more children in the first place.
More than two-thirds of those surveyed (69 percent) believe that family support measures contribute greatly to improving Hungary's population situation.
European and Hungarian large families raising at least three or more children are concerned about environmental protection (91 and 94 percent), and most of them are particularly interested in the topic (58 and 61 percent). Protecting the environment is important to them primarily because of their children's future (81 and 84 percent), the institute quotes another European-level research.
According to their press release , the survey highlights that the more children someone raises, the more they think that it is their duty to protect the environment, not others, which is also proven by the fact that among large families there are an outstanding number of people who selectively collect garbage (more than 90 percent of them).
Large families do not at all agree with the statement that it is not worth having children because of the climate disaster, but other European large families strongly reject this kind of connection between having children and the environmental disaster.
In 1989, the UN declared July 11 as World Population Day. The purpose of this is to draw attention to the extent of global population growth and the resulting problems. - Although the population of our planet is constantly growing at the global level, this growth is not characteristic of all continents and countries in the same way.
In Europe, we are living in the era of demographic winter, not a single EU state is having a sufficient number of children to sustain itself, while the aging of societies is already causing significant challenges in the short term. In terms of the total world population, the proportion of Europeans fell from 21.7 percent in 1950 to 9.6 percent in 2020 .
Source: magyarnemzet.hu
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