BBC News
By Adam Easton
image copyrightAnna Adamowicz
image captionAnna Adamowicz (L) and her wife Agnieszka are raising 13-year-old Pola but a proposed law would stop Agnieszka adopting her
Thirteen-year-old Pola is one of an estimated 50,000 children in Poland being raised by same-sex couples. Like most of those children, Pola is growing up with her biological mother, Anna Adamowicz, together with her wife, Agnieszka. Pola was born during Anna's previous relationship with a man and her father continues to play an active role in her upbringing.
Together for more than a decade, Anna and Agnieszka married in Copenhagen three years ago, but their marriage is not legally recognised in Poland, whose constitution stipulates that marriage is a union of a man and a woman.