Latest items for Poland
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: LRW-LAW-2
"“If the raped Liza had survived, the perpetrator would probably have escaped punishment for rape because she didn’t scream – that’s why we want to change the definition [of rape],” says lawyer Danuta Wawrowska, the author of a draft bill, sponsored by New Left, currently wending its way through parliament that would amend the definition to one that interprets rape as sex without consent. There have been attempts already in the past to change this. In 2016, a high-profile trial against a 26-year-old uncle charged with raping his 14-year-old niece began. The now 22-year-old niece and her lawyers argued that the man should be tried for rape, while the prosecutor’s...more
Variables: LRW-LAW-2
"“If the raped Liza had survived, the perpetrator would probably have escaped punishment for rape because she didn’t scream – that’s why we want to change the definition [of rape],” says lawyer Danuta Wawrowska, the author of a draft bill, sponsored by New Left, currently wending its way through parliament that would amend the definition to one that interprets rape as sex without consent. There have been attempts already in the past to change this. In 2016, a high-profile trial against a 26-year-old uncle charged with raping his 14-year-old niece began. The now 22-year-old niece and her lawyers argued that the man should be tried for rape, while the prosecutor’s...more
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1
"News about Liza’s rape and hospitalisation first began to appear in the Belarusian media on February 25, provoking reactions that showed the scale of the task to change some attitudes in Polish society[...]However, other articles garnered dozens of judgmental comments and musings about whether the woman had acted correctly by returning home alone after a night out. “I was shocked by the comments because they were all about ‘she shouldn’t have been there’, ‘why was she walking alone at night’ – all that traditional nonsense,” says the Belarusian feminist activist, Nasta Bazar. “When it became known that Liza had died from rape and strangulation, I scrolled through the comments and...more
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1
"News about Liza’s rape and hospitalisation first began to appear in the Belarusian media on February 25, provoking reactions that showed the scale of the task to change some attitudes in Polish society[...]However, other articles garnered dozens of judgmental comments and musings about whether the woman had acted correctly by returning home alone after a night out. “I was shocked by the comments because they were all about ‘she shouldn’t have been there’, ‘why was she walking alone at night’ – all that traditional nonsense,” says the Belarusian feminist activist, Nasta Bazar. “When it became known that Liza had died from rape and strangulation, I scrolled through the comments and...more
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2
"This poor conviction rate, along with the weak sentences handed down to rapists, is believed to discourage many victims of sexual violence from reporting the crimes. Today, in Poland many women are afraid of going to the police to report rape because they know that they will have to answer questions about whether they screamed or tried to fight. Women have to prove that they actively resisted. This is humiliating, and I think it makes it even harder for women to report rapes and seek justice, says Dorota Olko, spokesperson for New Left" (para 15-16).
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2
"This poor conviction rate, along with the weak sentences handed down to rapists, is believed to discourage many victims of sexual violence from reporting the crimes. Today, in Poland many women are afraid of going to the police to report rape because they know that they will have to answer questions about whether they screamed or tried to fight. Women have to prove that they actively resisted. This is humiliating, and I think it makes it even harder for women to report rapes and seek justice, says Dorota Olko, spokesperson for New Left" (para 15-16).
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1
""It made me really angry, so I urged people to share their stance [under the hashtag #stopraping]. I was shocked by the comments because they were all about ‘she shouldn’t have been there’, ‘why was she walking alone at night’ – all that traditional nonsense,” says the Belarusian feminist activist, Nasta Bazar. “When it became known that Liza had died from rape and strangulation, I scrolled through the comments and this time I saw ‘poor girl’. It made me really angry, so I urged people to share their stance [under the hashtag #stopraping].” “My aim wasn’t for women to share their own stories because I understand it’s re-traumatizing,” Bazar continues....more
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1
""It made me really angry, so I urged people to share their stance [under the hashtag #stopraping]. I was shocked by the comments because they were all about ‘she shouldn’t have been there’, ‘why was she walking alone at night’ – all that traditional nonsense,” says the Belarusian feminist activist, Nasta Bazar. “When it became known that Liza had died from rape and strangulation, I scrolled through the comments and this time I saw ‘poor girl’. It made me really angry, so I urged people to share their stance [under the hashtag #stopraping].” “My aim wasn’t for women to share their own stories because I understand it’s re-traumatizing,” Bazar continues....more
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2
“There are still people in the Polish Sejm, who see this as an ‘anti-men’ bill. Even despite such a horrific and fatal rape of the Belarusian woman, there are still doubts about whether such a law change is needed in the Polish criminal code,” laments Olko" (para. 20). "The bills will be considered by the Sejm at a session in mid-April, though the PiS-allied president, Andzej Duda, has the power to veto any bill he doesn’t agree with. He has already commented on the abortion bills, describing them as a demand for “the right to kill”" (para 30).
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2
“There are still people in the Polish Sejm, who see this as an ‘anti-men’ bill. Even despite such a horrific and fatal rape of the Belarusian woman, there are still doubts about whether such a law change is needed in the Polish criminal code,” laments Olko" (para. 20). "The bills will be considered by the Sejm at a session in mid-April, though the PiS-allied president, Andzej Duda, has the power to veto any bill he doesn’t agree with. He has already commented on the abortion bills, describing them as a demand for “the right to kill”" (para 30).
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: WAM-PRACTICE-1
"The rape and murder of Liza, a 25-year-old Belarusian woman, shocked wider Polish society as well as the large Belarusian expat community. The tragedy prompted Belarusian women to share their own stories of sexual violence, launching the trending hashtag #хопіцьгвалціць (#stopraping), which is already being referred to as the Belarusian #MeToo movement" (para. 3). "News about Liza’s rape and hospitalisation first began to appear in the Belarusian media on February 25, provoking reactions that showed the scale of the task to change some attitudes in Polish society" (para. 5). "“I was shocked by the comments because they were all about ‘she shouldn’t have been there’, ‘why was she walking alone...more
Variables: WAM-PRACTICE-1
"The rape and murder of Liza, a 25-year-old Belarusian woman, shocked wider Polish society as well as the large Belarusian expat community. The tragedy prompted Belarusian women to share their own stories of sexual violence, launching the trending hashtag #хопіцьгвалціць (#stopraping), which is already being referred to as the Belarusian #MeToo movement" (para. 3). "News about Liza’s rape and hospitalisation first began to appear in the Belarusian media on February 25, provoking reactions that showed the scale of the task to change some attitudes in Polish society" (para. 5). "“I was shocked by the comments because they were all about ‘she shouldn’t have been there’, ‘why was she walking alone...more
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: LRW-LAW-1
"But to meet this legal threshold it requires the victim to express opposition to the unwanted sexual behaviour. This fact sparked new discussions around changing the definition of rape and its punishment under Poland’s criminal code. Currently, rape is legally defined as forced sexual intercourse using threats, force or deceit. But to meet this legal threshold it requires the victim to express opposition to the unwanted sexual behaviour. “If the raped Liza had survived, the perpetrator would probably have escaped punishment for rape because she didn’t scream – that’s why we want to change the definition [of rape],” says lawyer Danuta Wawrowska, the author of a draft bill, sponsored by...more
Variables: LRW-LAW-1
"But to meet this legal threshold it requires the victim to express opposition to the unwanted sexual behaviour. This fact sparked new discussions around changing the definition of rape and its punishment under Poland’s criminal code. Currently, rape is legally defined as forced sexual intercourse using threats, force or deceit. But to meet this legal threshold it requires the victim to express opposition to the unwanted sexual behaviour. “If the raped Liza had survived, the perpetrator would probably have escaped punishment for rape because she didn’t scream – that’s why we want to change the definition [of rape],” says lawyer Danuta Wawrowska, the author of a draft bill, sponsored by...more
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"At present, many convicted rapists in Poland frequently receive suspended sentences. Over the period from 2010 to 2016, between 31 per cent and 41 per cent of convictions for rape concluded with solely suspended jail terms. Only 13 per cent of those convicted of rape received sentences of between five and ten years, according to Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. Furthermore, while the latest police statistics show that in 2021 Polish law enforcement solved 88 per cent of the 1,081 rape cases pursued, during that year another 1,176 cases were opened but ultimately closed because the police could not find evidence of rape having occurred" (para 14-15).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"At present, many convicted rapists in Poland frequently receive suspended sentences. Over the period from 2010 to 2016, between 31 per cent and 41 per cent of convictions for rape concluded with solely suspended jail terms. Only 13 per cent of those convicted of rape received sentences of between five and ten years, according to Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. Furthermore, while the latest police statistics show that in 2021 Polish law enforcement solved 88 per cent of the 1,081 rape cases pursued, during that year another 1,176 cases were opened but ultimately closed because the police could not find evidence of rape having occurred" (para 14-15).
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: LRCM-PRACTICE-2
"There have been attempts already in the past to change this. In 2016, a high-profile trial against a 26-year-old uncle charged with raping his 14-year-old niece began. The now 22-year-old niece and her lawyers argued that the man should be tried for rape, while the prosecutor’s office insisted on a charge of having sex with a minor. The prosecution struggled with acknowledging a case of sexual violence since the girl did not scream. The first-instance court found the man guilty of rape and sentenced him to three years in prison. But the appellate court overturned the verdict and brought forward a new charge, this time solely for having sex with...more
Variables: LRCM-PRACTICE-2
"There have been attempts already in the past to change this. In 2016, a high-profile trial against a 26-year-old uncle charged with raping his 14-year-old niece began. The now 22-year-old niece and her lawyers argued that the man should be tried for rape, while the prosecutor’s office insisted on a charge of having sex with a minor. The prosecution struggled with acknowledging a case of sexual violence since the girl did not scream. The first-instance court found the man guilty of rape and sentenced him to three years in prison. But the appellate court overturned the verdict and brought forward a new charge, this time solely for having sex with...more
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: LRCM-LAW-3
"There have been attempts already in the past to change this. In 2016, a high-profile trial against a 26-year-old uncle charged with raping his 14-year-old niece began. The now 22-year-old niece and her lawyers argued that the man should be tried for rape, while the prosecutor’s office insisted on a charge of having sex with a minor. The prosecution struggled with acknowledging a case of sexual violence since the girl did not scream. The first-instance court found the man guilty of rape and sentenced him to three years in prison. But the appellate court overturned the verdict and brought forward a new charge, this time solely for having sex with...more
Variables: LRCM-LAW-3
"There have been attempts already in the past to change this. In 2016, a high-profile trial against a 26-year-old uncle charged with raping his 14-year-old niece began. The now 22-year-old niece and her lawyers argued that the man should be tried for rape, while the prosecutor’s office insisted on a charge of having sex with a minor. The prosecution struggled with acknowledging a case of sexual violence since the girl did not scream. The first-instance court found the man guilty of rape and sentenced him to three years in prison. But the appellate court overturned the verdict and brought forward a new charge, this time solely for having sex with...more
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"In the same year, a 33-year-old woman who was five months pregnant died on the operating table. She had been brought to the hospital after her water broke. The following day, she was diagnosed with septic shock, but doctors still would not perform a life-saving abortion. It turned out that the hospital where she was being treated had not performed any abortions since 2018, according to Rzeczpospolita. It is evident that some doctors remain afraid of the strict penalties imposed for carrying out or organising abortions later deemed illegal, which includes imprisonment of up to three years. In the years since the Constitutional Tribunal ruling in 2020, the number of...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"In the same year, a 33-year-old woman who was five months pregnant died on the operating table. She had been brought to the hospital after her water broke. The following day, she was diagnosed with septic shock, but doctors still would not perform a life-saving abortion. It turned out that the hospital where she was being treated had not performed any abortions since 2018, according to Rzeczpospolita. It is evident that some doctors remain afraid of the strict penalties imposed for carrying out or organising abortions later deemed illegal, which includes imprisonment of up to three years. In the years since the Constitutional Tribunal ruling in 2020, the number of...more
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
"The brutal rape and murder of a Belarusian woman in Poland has highlighted the issue of women’s rights in a country where the legal definition of rape was laid down almost a century ago, and abortion is difficult to access even for those who were raped" (para 1). "Even after the previous conservative-populist PiS government tightened the already strict abortion law following a ruling from the Constitutional Tribunal in 2020 to one which also banned abortions in cases of foetal abnormalities, victims of violence are still one of two categories of women granted the right to an abortion. The other is for those women whose lives are endangered by the...more
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
"The brutal rape and murder of a Belarusian woman in Poland has highlighted the issue of women’s rights in a country where the legal definition of rape was laid down almost a century ago, and abortion is difficult to access even for those who were raped" (para 1). "Even after the previous conservative-populist PiS government tightened the already strict abortion law following a ruling from the Constitutional Tribunal in 2020 to one which also banned abortions in cases of foetal abnormalities, victims of violence are still one of two categories of women granted the right to an abortion. The other is for those women whose lives are endangered by the...more
March 13, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-DATA-1
"Even after the previous conservative-populist PiS government tightened the already strict abortion law following a ruling from the Constitutional Tribunal in 2020 to one which also banned abortions in cases of foetal abnormalities, victims of violence are still one of two categories of women granted the right to an abortion[...]In the years since the Constitutional Tribunal ruling in 2020, the number of legal abortions has decreased tenfold, amounting to only about a hundred cases per year since 2020, according to Statista" (para 23-26).
Variables: ABO-DATA-1
"Even after the previous conservative-populist PiS government tightened the already strict abortion law following a ruling from the Constitutional Tribunal in 2020 to one which also banned abortions in cases of foetal abnormalities, victims of violence are still one of two categories of women granted the right to an abortion[...]In the years since the Constitutional Tribunal ruling in 2020, the number of legal abortions has decreased tenfold, amounting to only about a hundred cases per year since 2020, according to Statista" (para 23-26).
Feb. 12, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
Countries: Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Comoros, Cuba, Djibouti, Georgia, Israel, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mauritania, Montenegro, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Singapore
Variables: DV-SCALE-1
0
Variables: DV-SCALE-1
0
Jan. 29, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
Countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine
Variables: LO-SCALE-3
0
Variables: LO-SCALE-3
0
Jan. 29, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Greece, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zimbabwe
Variables: LO-SCALE-2
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Variables: LO-SCALE-2
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Jan. 29, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Comoros, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine
Variables: LO-SCALE-1
0
Variables: LO-SCALE-1
0
Jan. 20, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
Countries: Algeria, Angola, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep, Chad, Chile, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, D R Congo, Djibouti, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad/Tobago, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Variables: ABO-SCALE-1
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Variables: ABO-SCALE-1
3
Dec. 28, 2025, 9:06 a.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
The chart in the UNODC Data Portal titled, "Violent Crime & Sexual Violence," shows that the rate of reported rapes in Poland in 2023 was 1.29 per 100,000 population, and the rate of reported sexual assaults was 1.03 per 100,000.
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
The chart in the UNODC Data Portal titled, "Violent Crime & Sexual Violence," shows that the rate of reported rapes in Poland in 2023 was 1.29 per 100,000 population, and the rate of reported sexual assaults was 1.03 per 100,000.
Dec. 10, 2025, 12:51 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: DV-DATA-1
According to Annex 10, "National prevalence estimates of lifetime and past-12-months physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence against women aged 15-49 years, 2023" the average lifetime point estimate % for Poland in 2023 was 9.8%.
Variables: DV-DATA-1
According to Annex 10, "National prevalence estimates of lifetime and past-12-months physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence against women aged 15-49 years, 2023" the average lifetime point estimate % for Poland in 2023 was 9.8%.
Nov. 3, 2025, 1:49 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
The Center for Reproductive Rights states that Poland's laws permit abortion to preserve the health of the mother. Parental authorization/notification required. Abortion permitted in cases of incest and rape.
Variables: ABO-LAW-1
The Center for Reproductive Rights states that Poland's laws permit abortion to preserve the health of the mother. Parental authorization/notification required. Abortion permitted in cases of incest and rape.
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: MARR-DATA-2
"Nearly half of Poles under 30 are single. Another fifth are in relationships but live apart" (para 6).
Variables: MARR-DATA-2
"Nearly half of Poles under 30 are single. Another fifth are in relationships but live apart" (para 6).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-2
"Communism, in rejecting the bourgeois model of the family, propelled women into full employment and higher education, a policy that left Poland with one of the EU’s smallest gender-pay gaps. By the 1980s, women already outnumbered men at universities" (para 17). This suggests that under communist ideology, societal attitudes toward women's education were largely egalitarian, viewing higher education as equally important for girls and boys (LEN - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-2
"Communism, in rejecting the bourgeois model of the family, propelled women into full employment and higher education, a policy that left Poland with one of the EU’s smallest gender-pay gaps. By the 1980s, women already outnumbered men at universities" (para 17). This suggests that under communist ideology, societal attitudes toward women's education were largely egalitarian, viewing higher education as equally important for girls and boys (LEN - CODER COMMENT).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: BR-DATA-1
"In 2015… the country’s fertility rate had stalled at 1.3 children per woman, among the lowest in Europe" (para 1). "In 2024, Poland’s fertility rate collapsed to 1.1 – meaning it ranks among the world’s least fertile countries, beside war-scarred Ukraine. This year, it is poised to fall further, to 1.05" (para 3).
Variables: BR-DATA-1
"In 2015… the country’s fertility rate had stalled at 1.3 children per woman, among the lowest in Europe" (para 1). "In 2024, Poland’s fertility rate collapsed to 1.1 – meaning it ranks among the world’s least fertile countries, beside war-scarred Ukraine. This year, it is poised to fall further, to 1.05" (para 3).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: BR-PRACTICE-1
"A million new one-person households have materialised in the demographic ledger, quiet entries in a changing social contract... The problem is not simply that Poles are having fewer children. Increasingly, they have no partners with whom to try. For the latest phase of gender wars impedes not only childbearing but the very formation of couples – here understood as heterosexual unions – on which birth statistics still mostly rest" (para 3-4). The reasoning for Poland's low birth rate is not just explained by small families, many Poles are not getting married or are getting married later in life (LEN - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: BR-PRACTICE-1
"A million new one-person households have materialised in the demographic ledger, quiet entries in a changing social contract... The problem is not simply that Poles are having fewer children. Increasingly, they have no partners with whom to try. For the latest phase of gender wars impedes not only childbearing but the very formation of couples – here understood as heterosexual unions – on which birth statistics still mostly rest" (para 3-4). The reasoning for Poland's low birth rate is not just explained by small families, many Poles are not getting married or are getting married later in life (LEN - CODER COMMENT).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: CBMC-DATA-1
"The family, once imagined as Poland’s unbreakable core, has begun to fray. When the Berlin Wall fell, less than 6% of children were born out of wedlock... But as that generation came of age, many chose distance over duty. Data on estrangement remain imperfect, but by one estimate up to one in four Poles under 45 has no contact with their father; up to one in 13 is cut off from their mother" (para 14).
Variables: CBMC-DATA-1
"The family, once imagined as Poland’s unbreakable core, has begun to fray. When the Berlin Wall fell, less than 6% of children were born out of wedlock... But as that generation came of age, many chose distance over duty. Data on estrangement remain imperfect, but by one estimate up to one in four Poles under 45 has no contact with their father; up to one in 13 is cut off from their mother" (para 14).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-3, CBMC-PRACTICE-1
"The family, once imagined as Poland’s unbreakable core, has begun to fray. When the Berlin Wall fell, less than 6% of children were born out of wedlock... But as that generation came of age, many chose distance over duty. Data on estrangement remain imperfect, but by one estimate up to one in four Poles under 45 has no contact with their father; up to one in 13 is cut off from their mother... When parents no longer serve as role models, stepping into parenthood yourself becomes an act of improvisation" (para 14). It is becoming more common and more acceptable for children to be raised by only one parent in...more
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-3, CBMC-PRACTICE-1
"The family, once imagined as Poland’s unbreakable core, has begun to fray. When the Berlin Wall fell, less than 6% of children were born out of wedlock... But as that generation came of age, many chose distance over duty. Data on estrangement remain imperfect, but by one estimate up to one in four Poles under 45 has no contact with their father; up to one in 13 is cut off from their mother... When parents no longer serve as role models, stepping into parenthood yourself becomes an act of improvisation" (para 14). It is becoming more common and more acceptable for children to be raised by only one parent in...more
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: CWC-DATA-1
"Men and women are literally in different places too: internal migration has shifted the balance so that in the country’s largest cities – such as Warsaw, Łódź and Kraków – there are at least 110 women for every 100 men. Men are more likely to stay in smaller towns, away from the new economy and new norms" (para 18).
Variables: CWC-DATA-1
"Men and women are literally in different places too: internal migration has shifted the balance so that in the country’s largest cities – such as Warsaw, Łódź and Kraków – there are at least 110 women for every 100 men. Men are more likely to stay in smaller towns, away from the new economy and new norms" (para 18).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, ERBG-DATA-1
"Communism, in rejecting the bourgeois model of the family, propelled women into full employment and higher education, a policy that left Poland with one of the EU’s smallest gender-pay gaps" (para 17).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, ERBG-DATA-1
"Communism, in rejecting the bourgeois model of the family, propelled women into full employment and higher education, a policy that left Poland with one of the EU’s smallest gender-pay gaps" (para 17).
Nov. 1, 2025, 8:10 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: GIC-LAW-1
"The government now channels almost 8% of the national budget into cash transfers known as the “800 Plus” programme, so called because the state pays families 800 zlotys every month, per dependant child" (para 2).
Variables: GIC-LAW-1
"The government now channels almost 8% of the national budget into cash transfers known as the “800 Plus” programme, so called because the state pays families 800 zlotys every month, per dependant child" (para 2).