Poles neglect the family

In the past five years court orders have meant an increasing number of children are growing up away from their parents, the latest statistics published by the Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs show. The conservative daily Rzeczpospolita thinks this is a cause for concern: "The systematic rise in the number of children who are taken away from their parents and placed in children's homes or with foster parents is a worrying signal. It shows a similar tendency in Poland to the one we already know from the family courts in the West: that the importance of blood ties is being neglected. Adherents of 'social progress' are treating the family as a bulwark of conservative superstition. Furthermore in Poland it is often a problem that the courts do not take into account the economic circumstances of parents ... in making their assessments."

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