The online women's magazine, WMN published the annual review of Dr. Szilvi Gyurko, about the top 10 issues that have rattled the public in 2018, related to children.
1. eye-for-an-eye: when a child threw a meerkats on the floor in a zoo, comments flared up in the public that showed there were still a lot of people who saw punitive measures as the only method of discipline.
2. court ruling against the director of a child care home: while the case dates back to 2016, the final verdict was reached last year, against the director who has been abusing children in his care for several years.
3. what is a family? 2018 was declared the year of the family by the government, and public debate was about the defintion of a family (is it only a man and woman, with children...)
4. public education: the quality is still issue of concern, so is the lack of teachers
5. blue whale - only one of the many internet-based threats against children, but no institutional response has been formed yet
6. Segregating Roma pupils: a court has ruled that pupils are due HUF 89 million in Gyongyospata where they were forced into segregated classrooms. Furthermore the ruling states that long term life expectations can be damaged if children are discriminated in schools
7. The voice of children: for the first year UNICEF organised the day when children could take over the job of adults
8. Patriotism education in kindergarten - was introduced this year...
9. Political campaigns "using" children
10. Soros: the anti-Soros campaign of the government did not leave children untouched. They draw him (as evil) in school, they use his name as a swear word, together with the word "migrant"
6. R
You might like..
0
45
After getting his degree in psychology, Pál Vaskuti turned to child protection. He claims that because of a lack of human and financial resources, the Hungarian child protection system is worse than it was 40 years ago. In 2004 he went to…
0
6
On the 30th Anniversary of the signing of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, UNICEF organised several events: takeover day for children (that included work in Parliament); a visit to the President; a lecture at a University; a series of…
yes
0
42
April 2-4 2019 a training was held in Budapest for child protection professionals coming from Eastern Hungary on forensic interviews conducted in the Barnahus. Dr. Gyorgyne Lazary, director of the Barnahus National Knowledge Center of Hungary and…
0
575
The Kecskemet SOS Children's Villages recently held an open house to recruit foster parents for children living in state care, reported the Bacsk-Kiskun online portal.
‘There are around 24,000 children in Hungary in state care. There are 5,600…
0
91
It is easy to fall into the social media trap of over-posting. This is even more difficult for parents who share their children’s life without censor. This, according to experts, is very dangerous. The phenomenon has also created a new term:…
0
6
State Secretary for Social Affairs at the Ministry of Human Resources in Hungary, Attila Fülöp said that there were 23,000 children in the child protection system in Hungary. 15,000-16,000 live in foster care and 8,000 in care homes. The…
0
26
Though during the spread of Covid-19 everybody’s attention is on the older generations, it is essential to talk about the dangers that children are exposed to. Child protection organizations need to find a way of providing the same children’s rights…
0
107
Since 1991, 25 November has been the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. More than 100 people in Budapest took part in a march to demand the Hungarian government take domestic violence seriously and ratify the Istanbul…
0
14
Since 2013, Hungary has had strict punishments in place for domestic violence; in more severe cases, abusers can receive up to five years in prison.
In the past, Hungary has seen some dreadfully sad incidents, including in the town of Szeged, where…
0
5
Ágnes Diamond started a support group for LGBTQI + parents in 2016. Parents meet monthly, but they also set up a Facebook group called "Parents and Supporters of LGBTQ Children."
"Parents need to be visible, to commit themselves to show the others,…
0
4
By the fall of 2021, the Családbarát Ország Nonprofit Közhasznú Kft. will provide free training for 22,000 people through three EU-financed projects. The nonprofit will provide 39 types of free training, a brief summary of which can be found at…
0
128
UNICEF Child Rights Officer Viola Szlankó summarized how an epidemiological emergency affects child protection care in a new UNICEF blog post. Most of the children in child protection care have been removed from their families due to abuse, neglect…
0
103
A new bill was promoted in order to adopt a child sooner and not through a too complicated process in Hungary.
The procedure of adopting would only be 9 months from now. The potential new parents would not be bound to finish the 40-hours training,…
0
3
Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said yesterday at a government-organized conference on population trends, that economic incentives for families should boost birth rates and solve population issues, not immigration.
The 3rd Budapest…
0
1
According to a statement from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, the 2018/2019 academic year saw a significant rise in the number of children enrolled in nursery schools, and likewise, 19 new nursery school begain operations in the last year…
