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One in Three Polish Marriages Now Ends in Divorce Within Three Years



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According to a recent article, in Warsaw, romance is in recession.

Is it time to make sure you sign a prenuptial agreement (marriage contract) prior to tying the knot in Poland or with a Pole? The statistics are awfully scary and speaks for itself. Has newly found capitalism, freedom, and EU membership torn apart historically strong social bonds in Poland, or are unhappy marriages now being served moral justice?
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 		  Jan 31, 09, 07:25 /  #
This was the very statistic that sounded the alarm bells in the UK many years ago. It strikes me as odd as the Poles tend to be quite traditional in their perception of marriage. The advent of capitalism cannot really be singled out as the proximate cause. Capitalism, for many, brings new-found wealth and, for many, that means happiness. Especially when you have been relatively unaccustomed to it for so long.

It's hard to pinpoint the causes but I'd proffer the view that natural dissatisfaction ranks high. Many want to be part of the nouveau riche but, as capitalism dictates, not everyone gets a slice of the pie. There are, and will be for the foreseeable future, the haves and have-nots.

Unhappy marriages being served moral justice, a nice way to put it. I don't know the divorce provisions here but I guess that they broadly follow the 'irretrievable breakdown of marriage' test (1 of 5) that we employ in Scottish courts. It could be that courts here interpret that rather too laxly.
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