STORY-AT-A-GLANCE
- The proposal to institutionalize informal relationships in Poland would not solve any real social problem – all the necessary legal instruments for such relationships already exist.
- In Western countries, interest in same-sex civil partnerships is extremely low, which proves that it does not stem from a genuine social need but from an ideological agenda.
- Granting unmarried couples marital privileges constitutes an injustice toward married couples who raise children and bear the social costs of procreation.
- The goal of the draft bill announced by the governing coalition is not so much “protecting relationships” as the weakening and relativization of the institutions of marriage and the family.
- Introducing an alternative to marriage leads to a further decline in the birth rate and a blurring of the concept of the family.
- This is only the first step toward granting same-sex couples the right to adopt children, and then toward recognizing all forms of cohabitation, including “multi-parent” families, where a child may have, for example, three “fathers.”