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CENTRE FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: 'NATIONAL CONSENSUS' ON NEED TO PROTECT CHILDREN

 

Fully 95% of respondents in a recent survey by the Centre for Fundamental Rights said it is unacceptable that an assistant in a school “should engage in a sexual relationship with an underage student”, the centre said. The survey showed that 70% of those asked rejected “classes informing about various sexual orientations held without the parents’ consent”. The phone survey was conducted on Feb. 27-28 with a sample of 1,000 adults after “recent scandals”, including one involving child pornography. The analysts slammed the leftist parties for their “vehemently opposing the child protection law which they consider mere propaganda”, and warned that over 55% of leftist voters participating in the survey condemned classes “promoting sexual orientations” at school. “Hungary’s public opinion sees the child protection law as a guarantee for the well-being of children as opposed to the left’s view if it as hate-mongering propaganda,” the centre said. Fifty-eight percent of respondents said they would make the law more stringent, while 19% would maintain it in its current form and 9% would prefer changes to make it more lenient, it said.