Many liberal democracies are facing a social crisis today because their governments pursued policies which undermined the family. But since 2010, one country has seen marriage rates increase by a whopping 43 per cent with their divorce rate dropping by 22.5 per cent. Unsurprisingly, with the increase in marriage, 33 per cent fewer women are having abortions today than they were eight years ago. Likewise the national birth rate is currently at its highest in 20 years. The country is Hungary. And earlier this month their parliament just passed a second round of sweeping pro-family policies. While other countries fret about how immigration trends will shape their destiny, Hungarians are actually solving their demographic crisis by a different path. Hungary’s Minister for the Family, Katalin Novak, explains how their pro-family strategy faced profound opposition which they had to overcome if they wanted to save their country from social decline: