Symptoms of the crisis that affects a Polish family


Abstrakt:

The crisis, a word that is inflicted today through all cases, affects families in Poland as
well. Against a background of a family it is often spoken about economic crisis. Symptoms of the
crisis can be seen in relationships created within the family. What can often be found on the list
of symptoms are the crisis of fatherhood, weakening of bonds, the loss of authority and
educational problems in many families. Some see signs of the crisis in the loss of
multigenerational family, in the change of relations between parents and children and in other
cultural changes that the family is inevitably subjected to. From a sociological perspective the
article tries to show the number of divorces and birthrate as phenomena which indicate the crisis
affecting Polish families. The scale of the observed phenomena can be a clear sign speaking about
changes.
Key words: a family, the crisis of a family, divorces, the number of children in a family, a child,
poverty of families