With education and emphasizing the importance of human life, we can achieve results in family policy, said the President of the Republic, Katalin Novák, in a lecture to the students of the ITI Catholic University in Austria on Thursday.

In his presentation, the President of the Republic spoke about the importance of the traditional family model, the role of grandparents, the compatibility of having children, family life and career, comparing the former to an express train, which you cannot get on after a while, while in his opinion you can get on the professional train later to hold on

Katalin Novák, who is raising three children, said that in Hungary, 6.2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on family support, and that significant efforts are made to ensure that all the desired children can be born.

Referring to the demographic situation, he emphasized that the population has been continuously decreasing since 1981, but as a result of the government's measures, the number of marriages has doubled in the past 10 years, the number of abortions has halved, and the number of divorces has also decreased significantly.

The President of the Republic spoke about the financial burdens of those who have children, the support system in Hungary for them, including the home-building program, the GYED for grandparents, tax benefits that help families, and initiatives to help women who raise children learn. In the case of the baby loan, the entire debt is waived upon the birth of the third child, he emphasized.

The President of the Republic also drew attention to the Hungarian Basic Law, which protects the institution of marriage as a community of life between a man and a woman, created on the basis of a voluntary decision, and the family as the foundation of the nation's survival. The basis of the family relationship is marriage and the parent-child relationship. The mother is a woman, the father is a man - reminded Katalin Novák.

MTI

Front page image: President Katalin Novák gives a lecture at the ITI Catholic University in Trumau, Austria on October 27, 2022. MTI/Noémi Bruzák