ABSTRACT
The young wife and the young husband, irrespective of traditional or modern attitudes, usually face the most important question of their lives months before they get married—the problem of housing. A survey undertaken by the Youth and Young Women's Councils of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Youth League found that 43 percent of young married students live apart, 40 percent live together with one of the parents, 17 percent in sublet places, and 6 percent in their own apartments. Generation gaps between in-laws and young married couples is always great; only rarely are the young able to get along with the older in-laws, and the prejudice of the old toward the young is an equally efficient barrier toward a good equilibrium. Perhaps in another twenty years the situation will not be so bleak, but for now the first question facing a young Hungarian woman contemplating marriage is to find some kind of decent solution to the housing problem.
