Poland

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• Sexual education
• low level of knowledge about gay & lesbians in Society
• not many places for gays & lesbians
• when you get divorced, you are not allowed to keep your children if you are a gay. If you’re lesbian you can keep your kids.

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Private: no laws against

• No blood donations accepted
• No constitutional rights

15

(until 1999 it was 14 years)

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since 1994: 16, but in E-Germany since 1989

• „Hamburg–Marriage"
• no rights but duties
• low-level criteria
• binational partners
• visa prolonged
• government works on new law, but without priority
• new proposals announced for summer
• same taxation for unmarried partnerships

• Generally not prohibited
• „foster – parent"
• but often postponed by administration
• State-legistlation (not national legistlation)
• example: Patrick Lindner

• only married people
• only by partners
• self-insemination is allowed

• Differences in States
• big CSD-parades
• State-legistlation

When you are over 18 you’re not allowed to have sex with under 16

Partnership, you can get married in church

The parliament is working on it. It’s possible for home based children -> from Holland

• no blood / organ donations

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• only married couples