Eight out of ten Hungarians believe that mothers hold families together and that they play the biggest role in raising children, according to the Mother's Day research by the Mária Kopp Institute for Population and Family (KINCS). Most of the responding adults look at their mother with gratitude for raising them. According to almost three-quarters of them, mothers are valued in Hungary today. According to the majority of them, family policy should be based on mothers.
"Bringing children into the world and breastfeeding them, establishing a safe early mother-child relationship is the inalienable task of women, for the importance of which it is even more important to prepare girls and women today than in the past centuries, when they naturally saw models preparing for motherhood all around them." (Prof. Dr. Mária Kopp)
Mother's Day has been a defining holiday in the lives of Hungarian families for almost a century, mothers were first greeted in 1925 at the initiative of the Hungarian Youth Red Cross. This time, KINCS was interested in how people think about the role of mothers in families and society.
Nearly four-fifths of those surveyed (78%) agreed with the statement that mothers hold families together, and 77 percent believed that mothers have the biggest and most important role in raising children. Among those with children, the elderly, women and those living in rural areas, the proportion of those who agreed was even higher.
According to the majority of the respondents, family policy should be based primarily on mothers, six out of ten completely agreed with this, a quarter both agreed and disagreed, and only a sixth disagreed. Especially people with children, women and the elderly were able to identify more with this statement.
Regarding the personal life of the respondents, it was found that the majority of people (83 percent) are grateful to their mother for what and how she raised them, seven out of ten are completely satisfied with the way their mother raised them, and only 3 percent said they were dissatisfied.
It can also be established from the survey that the majority of Hungarians (71%) believe that mothers in our country are valued at the level of society as a whole and that their work for families is recognized.
The research of the Mária Kopp Institute showed that mothers are respected in Hungary, they are recognized both within families and in society. People feel that mothers hold families together, that they have the most important role in raising children, and that they do the most for families.
May God bless all mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers on May 1, Mother's Day!
Source: Mária Kopp Institute
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