Derisking Children: The Foundations of Hungarian Family Policy

This paper by Gergely Szűcs and Mátyás Vajda examines the evolution and architecture of Hungary’s comprehensive family policy framework, developed in response to the demographic challenges facing Western societies since the 1970s. Following a critical low in fertility rates in 2011, the Hungarian government shifted demographic sustainability to the center of its political agenda, establishing one of the world's most extensive support systems by targeting four core pillars that our paper analyses.