Weekly column from Poland: Study in Kyiv showed me how little I know

I was waiting at a tram stop after a long day of work at the church's office. Next to me stood a young woman with her daughter, who was about six years old. They spoke Ukrainian with a mixture of Russian. That was nothing extraordinary; we hear Ukrainian and Russian everywhere in Poland now.

As Polish society was heading towards becoming more secular, liberal and Western, the conservative Polish government had decided to fill the country with immigrants that would have been way more traditional.

“I can't afford it.” "I'm afraid of the climate crisis and poverty, and the future is uncertain." "Who said we should all have children?" These are just a few of the statements from Poles in their thirties who do not have children.