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Polish politician blames low birthrate on young women drinking

Outrage built up in Poland on Monday after the governing party’s leader, Jaros?aw Kaczyński, claimed excessive drinking by young women was to blame for the EU country’s low birthrate.

Opposition politicians, female celebrities and others denounced the 73-year-old as out of touch and patriarchal, dismissing his comments as nonsense.

Kaczyński made the controversial claims over the weekend.

“If we see a continuation of the situation where, until the age of 25, young women drink as much as men their age, then there will be no children,” Kaczyński said on Saturday.

“A man, in order to become an alcoholic, has to drink excessively for 20 years on average … while a woman only two.”

The head of the rightwing Law and Justice (PiS) party, who has no children, said his information came from a doctor who “managed to cure a third of his male alcoholic patients but no women”.

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