Demographic and Socio-Economic Conditions of the Restructuring of Family Policy in Poland

Contemporary changes of the family imply the need to seek new perspectives in family policy. In Poland, successive reforms and the proposed changes in this area have not yielded the expected results, either in terms of demographic balance, society or the economy of the country. They do not include in full many important aspects, among them the transformation of the family as well as other aspects such as the principle of subsidiarity, the empowerment of families, economic changes (especially in the labor market) and the mutual implications of family policy and the economy. The main objective of the article is to present changes of the family policy model, the dilemmas and the possibility of rebuilding this policy in Poland taking into consideration both the still unresolved problems and risks of family change (de-institutionalization), as well as the new challenges resulting from this state of affairs in demographic as well as social and economic aspects. The background considerations are the models of family policy in other European countries.