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POV | Short Cuts | Six Weeks | PBS

Duration: 18:49 (Full Program)
Program: POV #2408
Broadcast Date: Aug. 23, 2011

Six weeks is the period in which parents of newborn babies in Poland may decide to give up a child for adoption. Marcin Janos Krawczyk looks at one child's fate through the eyes of the mother who must make her irreversible decision and the joyful parents who adopt her baby.

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Post Date: August 24, 2011
Expiration Date: August 24, 2015