Mon Jan 24, 2022 – 10:21 am EST
WARSAW, Poland (LifeSiteNews) — The Polish government plans to build on efforts to promote families and childbearing in 2022.
Marlena Maląg, Poland’s Minister of Family and Social Policy, says that the government wants to tackle the country’s low fertility rate of 1.458 births per woman.
“Young people need to know that the state is implementing long-term, consistent, effective family-friendly policies,” she told Polsat News. “They need to know that these are not [just] incidents. We have been taking such measures for six years.”
Maląg told Polish news channel Polsat News in December that the plans will focus on “supporting families” rather than migration.
“[It] will include measures to help parents combine work with family life as well as housing, care and financial incentives,” she explained.
The new policies will build on an existing set of strategies pursued by the Polish government to increase the fertility rate which has grown 2 percent since 2019.
Maląg’s office reviewed the current programs and expected expansion in a year-end review for 2021.
“In the context of the demographic challenges faced by not only Poland, but, as a rule, by all developed
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