Kettős kötelék: a testvérek és ikertestvérek szerepe a gyermekvállalási és házassági attitűdök alakulásában a határon túli magyarok körében = Double Bond: The Role of Siblings and Twin Siblings in Shaping Childbearing and Marriage Attitudes among Hungarians Living Beyond the National Borders

Pári, András and Papházi, Tibor (2025) Kettős kötelék: a testvérek és ikertestvérek szerepe a gyermekvállalási és házassági attitűdök alakulásában a határon túli magyarok körében = Double Bond: The Role of Siblings and Twin Siblings in Shaping Childbearing and Marriage Attitudes among Hungarians Living Beyond the National Borders. KISEBBSÉGI SZEMLE, 10 (4). pp. 43-62. ISSN 2498-8049

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Abstract

The Research Institute for Hungarian Communities Abroad, the Youth Research Institute, and the Maria Kopp Institute for Demography and Families conducted a survey in 2023–2024 among ethnic Hungarians living beyond Hungary’s borders. The aim was to explore the partner-selection habits, childbearing intentions and opinions on starting a family in these communities. The short report in 2024 based on the data collection outlines the study’s main findings and observations. In the paper, after socio-demographic profiling, we attempted to identify the family-formation attitudes of Hungarian twins living beyond Hungary’s borders, a special and understudied group. The study of twins is particularly interesting because more and more twin pairs are being born worldwide, and they are increasingly coming into the focus of scientific research. Our recent analysis is both intriguing and challenging: firstly, because we have not encountered previous studies of this kind; secondly, because the small sample size must be treated with methodological caution; and thirdly, because this is the first quantitative investigation of this particular subgroup among ethnic Hungarians abroad. We hope that the conclusions drawn from these results will serve as a useful reference point for future research conducted on a larger sample with a similar focus among the target Hungarian populations living in the Carpathian basin.

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