Study: Hungarian teens have high opinion of parents

A recent study has shown that most Hungarian teenagers have a very high opinion of their parents. However, an expert says youngsters have an idealized picture of the family that does not always reflect reality.

Reader's Digest magazine polled 500 young Hungarians between the ages of 14 and 18, finding that 57% of them see their mother as "an excellent parent" as opposed to only 2% who said their mother was not doing a good job. Of fathers, 41% received the highest grade and 4% the lowest.

As part of the study, educational advisers and teenagers also helped compile a list of those qualities youngsters believe good parents should have. A 29-point questionnaire was based on those aspects.

Judit Regős, head of the House of Parents (Szülők Háza) cultural and methodological center, believes the results indicate teenagers idealize family relations, which are often the opposite to what they think of them in reality.

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