Due to the social distancing measures ordered as protection against mass infection during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, most Hungarian families were confined to home quarantine. Schools, kindergartens, and nursery schools were closed between 16 March and early June. Because grandparents belonged...

Despite recent pronatalist policies in Hungary, the country has not boosted birth rates at the expected rate. Higher edu‐ cated women still delay the transition to first birth, a smaller proportion of planned children are born than in Western European countries, and the level of childlessness...