Wsparcie społeczne dla ubogich kobiet
Social support for poor women

Summary/Abstract: In Polish families mainly women organize help in condition of poverty and contact with aid organizations. Therefore diagnosing the support for poor women we get the information about the support used by their whole families. This article aims at assessing the social support to poor women in Poland. The authoress analyses the scope and the forms of assistance given to the poor women by formal sector (bases on the results of her own research conducted among 109 poor Poles with in-depth interview techniques). This article in particular assesses public social assistance as one of the most important social services in the sphere of poverty.

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