Some Factors Conditioning the Phenomena of Prostitution the Postwar Poland

In view of the available date the paper entitled „Some Factors Conditioning the Phenomena of Prostitution in the Postwar Poland” brings us closer to the picture of the characteristics and development of the phenomenon of women’s prostitution. It seeks at the same time to find some ties of this phenomenon with the micro- and macrosocial conditionings. Among the microsocial factors the characteristics of the family milieu of prostitutes have been submitted to analysis (the structure of their family, styles of upbringing, atmosphere of family life, aspects of family deviations) and a possible „participation” of the protective and upbringing institutions in life-decisions of the prostitutes under study. As to the macrosocial factors there have been analyzed social processes in general which processes are carried on in the postwar Poland as well as the systems of values which function in Polish society in the period in question. Those systems could participate in conditioning etiology and development of the discussed problem. The findings the suggest which of the factors may turn out to be the dominating determinants of prostitution. They also suggest a need for a purposeful, deeper and up to date research on this problem