SYSTEM OF INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR SINGLE MOTHERS IN POLAND
SYSTEM OF INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR SINGLE MOTHERS IN POLAND

Summary/Abstract: Lone parenthood is not a new phenomenon but this problem touches growing group of people and is therefore more often chosen as the subject of research in the field of pedagogy, psychology, sociology and social work. In accordance to the reorganization in Poland in the 1980s, many social problems have been highlighted due to demographic, socio-economic in the labor market in Poland but also in Western Europe. In Poland since the 1990s the government changed its approach to its citizens, from the welfare state to a state which aims in the active social policy. The activities of this type of social policy refers to the ideas of social economy, the need to increase employment opportunities for vulnerable groups (e.g. people with disabilities) and persons who, for various reasons, are inactive (e.g. single mothers with children or the elderly). This concept is not new, it’s development started in Europe in the 1990s of twentieth century and is based, on the transformation of the welfare state into the decentralized and auxiliary state, that stimulate the development of social entrepreneurship and active citizenship with maintaining the principle of social solidarity in the face of the need to redefine social issues. One of the groups of clients of the social welfare system are single mothers who can count on financial, legal and social support from the social institutions. However, there are sometimes single women who are not entitled to these benefits. The paper discusses and analyses the legal and social problems of single women.

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