Demografia współczesnego polskiego dzieciństwa

Demography of the contemporary Polish childhood The last dozen or so years is a time of rapid changes in demographic processes in Poland. The aim of the paper is to focus on demographic component of social and material status of the Polish children. The attention was paid to demographic threatens (mortality, orphanhood, increase in non-marital parenthood, teenagers’ fertility, concentration of births in disfavored social strata) and to opportunities (decrease in family size, increase in probability of living in multigenerational families)