Government report on domestic violence
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Gazeta.pl, a well-known Polish-language independent news site, has full access to the content of a report on violence commissioned last year by Poland’s family, labor and social policy ministry. The full report has not yet been published by the ministry.
As many as 30 percent of respondents admitted to using domestic violence, while 20 percent used it several times. The diagnosis shows that approx. 10 percent of adults consider various types of violent acts normal. Overall 9 percent of respondents (11 percent of men and 6 percent of women) believe, for example, that “rape in marriage does not exist.” A similar percentage of respondents also indicated that “in matters of sex, the wife should always agree to what her husband wants.”
The study “Nationwide diagnosis of domestic violence” was carried out in August 2019 by Kantar Polska on a representative sample of 2,000 respondents from all of Poland’s sixteen provinces. And the report was prepared in October.
