Women with four children will most likely be full time moms for the majority of their productive lives so that's a pointless benefit, unless this policy manages to somehow reverse gender roles as well.
Also, knowing Hungary, this is probably intended as a subtle disincentive for the local Roma ghetto population. All the Central and Eastern European states fiddle with their welfare systems not to incentivize higher birthrates among the Roma ghetto population, even if they do not want to state this aloud. That is why the benefits target taxes, which you only pay if you actually work.
Basically, not enough education and a lot of crime in the community. Combined with enormous brain drain, because whoever manages to succeed a bit, moves away and marries into the majority population, thus disappearing as a potential positive influence.
This is one of the notorious ghettos in Slovakia, a neighbourhood called Luník IX: https://goo.gl/maps/KPnGTyBtX3NDTpdP6
Basically, an awful lot of cliches and self-fulfilling prophecies (such as limiting the employment of Sinti and Roma because of a fear of them being criminal leading to the affected going the criminal route just to survive).
Your wife can be a full-time mom and print money at the same time, with no practical change in gender roles.
There is always an incentive to re-enter the workforce, in the sense that you (hopefully) get paid to work. But the existence of an incentive doesn't mean that incentive is sufficient. In the absence of other incentives and the presence of Orban's reactionary social politics, it's unlikely that this one is sufficient.
There are plenty of reasonable ways to incentivize people to have children, nearly all of which are applied elsewhere in Europe while also helping (if not outright avoiding) attrition in the workforce. Hungary's approach represents the significant deviation here.
Don’t waste your time raising the next generation! That doesn’t boost our GDP!
That’s not true in the least. We use economic incentives to drive desirable behavior everywhere.
It might not be the greater good for society, but it is good for women who want to be self sufficient.
>It didn't used to have to be this way and maybe we should figure out why it has to be that way now, then fix that.
It turns out that many women want to have financial freedom (i.e. freedom), and are willing to sacrifice a lot on the homemaking front to have it.
So is increasing the proportion of 'true Hungarians' compared with immigrants. Race nationalists have long promoted high birth rates.