News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2971]


Back to the dark ages? NEVER


What about a compromise? What about a country where church does not dictate what to do, right of a child is still protected IF is does not create danger to women's life?

In fact, I think the current law works just fine, it just has to be followed correctly and provisions within the law need to be made for mothers that don't want to keep the baby for "economic" reasons.

By provision I mean shelters where they can in dorms stay until they give birth, are fed well enough and after birth they can decide if they keep the baby or give it up. Let's say they can leave baby in the shelter up to 3 months and if they don't come back after that, their maternal rights are taken by default. This still does not solve the issue of "inconvenient" pregnancy, but addressed the major concern. There should also be a surrogacy law, allowing people to adopt baby while a woman is pregnant. I even think this does not need to be free (I know that's controversial) - but any money exchanged has to be done after the baby is born and full adoption takes place.

The reason why many women decide to have abortion is fear for the future. If you remove that, and to certain extent address inconvenience aspect, number of abortions should decrease.

But you can't simply create law that does not allow abortion, this will simply push the problem to the black market to deal with (as it is now).

Love / Aliments and abortion (I was married to a Polish guy) [64]

F stop, regardless of her intentions, if he didn't want the baby he should have protected himself. There are just to many Polish men playing fools when it comes down to pregnancy, as if they don't know where babies come from.

Law / UK dad - Polish mum - getting a child checked for paternity reasons... Poland [4]

Unless your name is on birth certificate, you don't have ANY rights. Then, if you do want to gave rights (which come with obligations), you speak to the mother (or take her to court).

Love / Marriage Proposal to my Polish girlfriend. Should I ask her father for permission? [4]

Whatever you do, ask HER first...

UK, Ireland / I am Polish and live in UK and i am pregnant! I need your help! [30]

Since when men get pregnant? Troll.

Real Estate / Help on choosing the best neighborhood to live in Warsaw.. [20]

Pololand is generally a safe country, and in Warsaw public transport runs until around midnight, unless you live on outskirts of Warsaw. Better to live close to metro station to avoid traffic. You may have problem finding decent 60 meter flat for 2000 though.

Love / Polish mother, possible UK father - child law Poland. [35]

Hudson, bottomline is SHE doesn't need HIM to do this, so your cooment doesn't help much. To be honest I don't think he can xo anything to firce paternity test, unless she wants money, and then court will order the test. The test OP brought will not be valid anyway.

Love / Polish mother, possible UK father - child law Poland. [35]

Even then, it might be difficult to force paternity test, especially if she says that he is NOT the father.

News / The lottery of life: Where to be born in 2013. Poland ranks 33 out of 80. [23]


Try telling that to conspiracy theory believers (plenty of them in Poland) who think that all good jobs go to family and friends of the company owners/ directors...

Work / Quiet Place to teach English in Krakow ? [24]

Not necessarily. Many other jobs require knowledge of English.

Love / What to answer to the Most annoying phrase that EVERY and EACH polish girl always says? [58]

Yes, Polish people are not the most confident. This is actually a big problem - most of my cousins have decent education, some speak quite good English and they don't seem to get anywhere with it. Sometimes I think that the only reason why I'm not like that is that I left Poland for few years very early and basically had to fend for myself. So I had to learn how to be confident.

A lot of Polish young adults still live with their parents - that's not good for confidence either as Polish parents (especially mothers) are very patronising.

Work / I have just made a technical interview for a job in Poland - sending an email to your interviewers after? [4]

It's always good to thank the interviewer, also in Poland - but it's not considered obligatory.

Love / Woman 23, man 47 years old. What do you think about ? [162]

15 years is too much, but this is 24 years, not 15...

Love / Are all beautiful Polish girls as crazy as this? [262]

Knight rider - you sound like a song...
'If you wanna be happy for thr rest of your life
Never make pretty woman your wife
From the personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you...'

Travel / Poland travel with baby (car seat?) [18]

If you travel by bus or train, you won't need car seat. If you hire a car, you can hire with car seat. Or if you travel with family and friends in their car, ask them if they can borrow one. There might be someone in the family that does need it.

Love / Marriage with a polish woman - Heaven or Forever Hell ? [60]


I see you haven't done maths at school... So now your man lives for nothing, no food, accommodation, bills and woman "consumes" everything?

Love / Marriage with a polish woman - Heaven or Forever Hell ? [60]

What??? Poland has 10 % divorce rate? When, in the 60's? Divorce rate in Poland now is over 30% (which is still significany less than USA and Western Europe), but days of 10% are looong gone...

Love / Marriage with a polish woman - Heaven or Forever Hell ? [60]

Kondzior, disciplining children by father has nothing to do with male dominance in family. I would give my own family as example (I know, I'm far from being objective and my family may not be representative, but that's not the point). My husband is far from being dominant towards ME, although he is a very masculine type.

We both discipline our son, but our son is still small. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that men is usually stronger built and has more physical power, which can play a role when disciplining teenager.

I will be very happy for my husband to deal with the teenage tantrums of our son when the time comes...
But only part of disciplining is related to physical dominance.
Rest is mental strength and consequence, which is not gender related, but rather driven by confidence and position within the household.
An independent women, a provider, will be more confident and mentally strong than a housewife.

Work / Average monthly salaries in Poland's voivodships [12]


You hit a nail on the head here.
A LOT of small and even medium companies in Poland cheat on wages. They pay minimum "on paper" so that their costs are lower, and pay the rest "under the table".

So just looking at taxes you won't have true reflection either.
Another way of looking at it would be at what Poles spend, although I can see few issues with this method as well...
Statistics can be very misleading when looking at country like Poland.

Language / Does Polish have a plural of "You"? [51]


Lyzko - correct would be "Czy moge panstwu pomoc?", or even better "Czy moge panstwu w czyms pomoc?"

Love / ACCEPTABLE modest wear for Polish women? [49]

Abui3issa - I haven't got much to say about what you like her wearing, but were I live (South Africa) there are plenty of modern muslim girls.

They quite often wear tight fitting dresses or tops with pair of fitting jeans or leggings in summer.
Overall they look quite smart and if I was a male I would even say sexy... but not too revealing.
Even a pair of skinnies with a slightly longer top are ok here. They do often wear hijab, although I saw many muslim girls not wearing one (how do I know they are Muslims? Because I work with them...)

But again - I found Muslim women in SA to be a lot more outward thinking and progressive than in other parts of the world...

If you love your fiancee you should accept HER style and hope that she learns to accept your feelings and perhaps adapts her style - rather than expecting het to fit into a "matrix" that you created for her.

By the way - skinny jeans - unless they are too skinny are not really considered too revealing anywhere - even a modest girl would wear them in Poland.

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Polonia / Blog about my expat life in South Africa - in Polish [4]

Unfortunately I haven't got time to write each note in two languages... Besides, there are a lot of blogs about South Africa in English already...

Polonia / Polish Community - Dubai or Abu Dhabi [53]

Magda, below links to blogs of two Polish women currently in Dubai. You can contact them via their blogs:

dubajland.blogspot.com
asiathinksthings.com

Blogs are actually very good way to meet people :-) here is mine...
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Travel / What to do with EU Visa and Poland flight ticket when surname is changed? [6]

For flight best to contact the travel agent, but both, visa and flight ticket is issued to a person, not to a name (otherwise someone bearing same name could use it, which is illegal) - so I'm sure that if she can show her old documents, the EU visa will be stamped in her new passport. With flight she might only bring her old passport with, but best to check with travel agent or airlines.

Love / Adultery- Is it ok for Polish women [41]


I worked for a big multinational company which used to bring a lot of expats to Poland.
Mainly from UK and Japan. Most of them married. I don't think even single one of them over the period of 3 years I worked there was ever faithful to his wife.

All had their little Polish girlfirends. They would go back home, switch the SIM cards in their phone and live happily with his wife and kids, and then go back to Poland and carry on as usual.

Do you think those English and Japanese wifes of thos men knew and accepted their adultry?
Or rather they didn't know?
Is this any different to behaviour of Polish men you met?
I don't know about Columbian men, but I used to have Brazillian friends. They were far from faithful... Both men and women...

Law / Polish citizen wife wants to apply residency permit in Poland.... [4]


Harry - from what I see they are still in South Africa.

Gina, I'm Polish and living in SA - your best bet is to contact the Polish Embassy in Pretoria and initiate application.
I don't know what the process is, but if it's anything like for South Africa, then you will have to first live in Poland for few years on temporary residence before you are eligible for permanent one.

In any case - Polish Embassy is your best source of the information.

Life / Is 10500 monthly is enough for a family to live in Warsaw Poland [136]


Sobieski - I KNOW personally people who relocated to Poland from India or Pakistan and are earning that sort of salary in Poland.
Believe me - it is possible. International companies generally prefer to relocate people to other sites as it saves them head hunting fees. And gives their people opportunity to grow.

There are companies that transfer Polish expats too (I'm one of them) to overseas locations. And they don't offer them junior roles for national minimum wage.

You just have to be in right place at the right time.

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Law / Moving to Poland - How do I get the Polish Identity Card [17]


Delph - law is actually quite simple - anyone born to a Polish parent(s) is considered Polish citizen.
What he needs to do is the following:
- get his unabridged birth certificate (passport is not enough)
- register his birth certificate in USC (Polish authorities for registering births, marriages etc) - the procedure is called "Umniejscowienie Aktu Urodzenia" (additional documents may be required - like parents birth certificates, better to check)

- get Polish birth certificate and apply for Polish ID.
I recently enquired about the procedure as my son born in South Africa does not have Polish passport yet, and that's what I was told at the embassy.


If your parents gave up their passport you might not have right to become Polish based on descendence.
But you can still live in Poland and apply for Polish citizenship after a while.

UK, Ireland / Do people in Poland live "better" than here in the UK? [150]

@ enkindu and Polish cold winters...

So what??? Winters in Norway are even worse. I don't remember winter when it was -20 'C two months in row and I live for a while. I agree with most if other stuff about UK, but weather is better in Poland. I lived i UK for 8 years, and I find it easier to put up with frost than with UK's damp winters.