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“If we want to avoid a demographic catastrophe, we must give women more work and shift some of the parental responsibilities to fathers,” writes the daily.
To encourage dads to take a more active role in bringing up their children, Gazeta Wyborcza calls for a new prospective law on maternity and paternity to be redrafted. At present, the law will provide a period of paid leave to parents, allowing couples to decide how this should be divided between mothers and fathers. The newspaper wants four weeks of this leave to be paid only if the father takes time off work.
With the total fertility rate of 1.38, Poland ranks below the EU average of 1.59 and far below the 2.10 – 2.15 necessary to maintain the population at its current level.
