Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, seen as Poland’s de facto leader, sparked a stir as he elaborated on the origin of the birth rate plummeting to 1.38 child per woman in the country. Saturday, November 5, he thus affirmed that “if nothing changes, that is to say if, until the age of 25, a young girl drinks as much as her contemporaries, she will not have a child”, implying that the drinking trend of young Polish women would bring the country to the brink of demographic abyss, reducing it from 38 million inhabitants to less than 25 million by the end of the 21st century.e century. “He also added that a man needs two decades to fall into alcoholism, while it only takes two years for a woman.” notes the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza.
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