5 d. ago Poland’s birth rate is in freefall. The cause? A loneliness epidemic that state cash can’t solve | Anna Gromada

Bonuses for families have done nothing to fix a baby bust caused by post-communist Europe’s relationships crisisIn 2015, I found myself advising Poland’s president on the nation’s demographic woes: the country’s fertility rate had stalled at 1.3 children per woman, among the lowest in Europe. I thought I understood the problem. Most Polish couples wanted to have two kids but settled for one. The culprits, I believed, were predictable: precarious jobs, not enough childcare, apartment prices out of reach. At 27, flush with the confidence that comes from being both right and young, I sparred with politicians and policymakers twice my age, usually men, who insisted that women like me would reproduce if only the state threw enough cash into the cradle.We were all, it turned out, fighting the wrong battle. In the decade since then, unemployment in Poland has sunk to one of the lowest in the EU. Incomes have more than doubled. Nursery and childcare places are multiplying. The government no...

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7 d. ago City of London PC who took and uploaded photo of woman in children's park is given warning

City of London PC who took and uploaded photo of woman in children's park is given warning  London Evening Standard

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8 d. ago Woman killed and 14 hurt including children after horror hit and run at birthday party

A car sped off a street and straight into a marquee filled with families as they gathered to celebrate a child's birthday in a quiet suburb - leaving one woman dead and several others injured

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The world number two carded six birdies and three bogeys in his opening 69, despite the absence of the longest club in his bag

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1 week ago Mum buys kids' Christmas presents at charity shops and results floor people

A woman has shared how she buys her children's presents for birthdays and Christmas, and she said there are many benefits to heading to charity shops. People were pretty stunned by the results

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The children were found unresponsive with injuries on Sunday morning

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2 w. ago Woman arrested as police identify two young children found dead in house

Meraj Ul Zahra, aged two, and Abdul Momin Alfaateh, three, were both found unresponsive with injuries inside a home in Corporation Street on Sunday morning, police said.

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2 w. ago Police name children, two and three, found dead as woman arrested

A 43-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of murder

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2 w. ago 'Nothing could have been done' to save two children found dead at home as woman arrested

Emergency serviced were sent out to a home in Staffordshire early on Sunday morning where the two children were found.

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2 w. ago Horror in suburbia: Woman, 43, is arrested on suspicion of murdering two children

Staffordshire Police rushed to a home on Corporation Street, Staffordshire, at around 7.30am today with the West Midlands Ambulance Service, where they found two children dead at the scene.

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A murder investigation has been launched in Stafford

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2 w. ago Woman, 43, arrested on suspicion of murder after deaths of two children in Stafford

Police have asked the public 'not to speculate' on the cause at this stage

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2 w. ago Two children found dead as woman arrested on suspicion of murder

Police are investigating the tragic incident

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