Our analysis aims at analyzing whether general values and familial attitudes had a role in becoming parent and in bearing a second or a third child in the post-communist society of Hungary experiencing a demographic transition. This analysis is all the more timely as cultural and ideational...

This study investigates the realisation of time-related positive fertility intentions using a comparative approach. Four European countries of medium size are compared, all with rather different fertility regimes: the Netherlands and Switzerland (Western), and Hungary and Bulgaria...

This paper strives to broaden understanding of fertility transition in post-Communist countries, starting in the early 1990s. The integration of findings from distinct avenues of fertility research and incorporation of results of an empirical analysis of new kinds into the approaches of...

Today it is a commonly accepted fact that besides fundamental economic and social transformations in the 1990s in Hungary, other, equally far-reaching changes occurred in several domains of life. The same applies to demographic processes, or more specifically to phenomena related to family...

Post-communist governments in Hungary made serious efforts to stop the massive fertility decline that started with the fall of the communist reproductive system, or at least to reduce it. Two of several interventions by the Hungarian government - the lengthening of child-raising allowance ('full...

Our paper describes the specific fertility behaviour of the Roma population from four of the five countries of Central and Eastern Europe with a large Roma minority: Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia. We present the fertility behaviour of the Roma and the ethnic-majority population according...