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c/childfree · by hanrahan@piefed.social · 284d

Poland’s birth rate is in freefall. The cause? A loneliness epidemic that state cash can’t solve

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/polands-birth-rate-is-in-freefall-the-cause-a-loneliness-epidemic-that-state-cash-cant-solve

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FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 284d (5 replies)

When parents no longer serve as role models, stepping into parenthood yourself becomes an act of improvisation.

I don't know about Poland, but in my American experience that's actually better. Older generations bullied and beat their children, and believed that was good child-rearing - the legacy of which lives on in today's political right-wing's collection of bullies and their sycophants.

IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social · 18 pts · 284d (4 replies)

Another similar line stuck out to me.

For many of my friends, adulthood meant not learning from parents but explaining the world to them.

FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 284d (2 replies)

Yeah, that one hit me, too, but I don't see it as similar. I think it was very spot-on considering the insane rate of change prevalent today. In my roughly five decades of life, I've watched things go from a relatively leisurely pace to what we have today where learned skills are frequently outdated within just a few years. It's felt much like watching a boulder grow and accelerate ever faster as it rolls downhill, demolishing everyone & everything in its way.

IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social · 3 pts · 284d (1 reply)

You’re right, the only real similarity is change itself, as you said. That’s all I was thinking about in that moment.
Thanks for sharing your perspective, it really added to the article for me.

FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 283d

☺️ Aww, shucks! Thanks for the compliment! Glad I'm still kinda useful as I get older...

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 63d

Some good that did. They just stayed the same in my family.

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 284d

Okay but what if instead Poland gave money to me?

Pros: I would have more money and not be poor

Cons: Probably sill not going to allow my bloodline continue

jaykrown@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 284d

Pay me and I'll move to Poland to help solve the problem.

Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 284d (2 replies)

Do they have quick housing problem there? Normally thats a good way to solve it.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d (1 reply)

Quick housing?

Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 283d

Lol I have no idea what the auto correct did there. I was falling alseep when I wrote this but im Pretty sure i was going for cheap housing.

d00ery@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d

The previous (and possibly current) govt was bribing the pension generation with 13 payments a year instead of 12.