The Demography of Contemporary Polish Childhood

• Autorzy: Piotr Szukalski
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Demography leaves childhood understood as a period in human life at the margins of its interest. Leaving alone the fact of birth, during its first years of live - before starting a sexually active period of life and especially before the period of procreation - a child is taken no account of within the demographic perspective. The only exception is made for those children who have experienced some significant demographic events - death or migration. Such attitude is partly a result of the tradition, i.e. the continuation of the research within the already explored areas, partly a result of the lack of occurrence of events during this period of human life and partly a result of the lack of demographically relevant behaviors within the process of sexual reproduction within the duration of this period. In the following paper I wish to concentrate not so much on the data on children (i.e. persons defined on the basis of the criterion of chronological age as being aged 0-14) as rather to go beyond the presentation of mere figures and concentrate on meta-data - measurements and demographic and epidemiological indicators that provide us with the indirect information on the quality of childhood in contemporary Poland. What I have in mind when applying the term 'contemporary Poland' is the situation within the last decade, i.e. the decade the information on which is available in statistical data bases, namely 1998-2007. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Demographic situation; Children; Demographic process; Poverty

PL

Sytuacja demograficzna; Dzieci; Procesy demograficzne; Ubóstwo

• Czasopismo: Polityka Społeczna
• Rocznik: 2009
• Numer: nr 1 (ang) Social Policy and Children
• Strony: 2--5

Twórcy

autor

Piotr Szukalski

• University of Łódź

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