History sometimes repeats itself. As a nine-year-old, Maja was abandoned by her mother and placed in an orphanage. Now it’s ten years later and she keeps returning to the institution – to visit her own four-year-old son. Will she be able to take control of her life despite the unfavorable circumstances and her own self-destructive tendencies?

The Wednesday Children follows the plight of a young boy named Scotty (Tom Kelly) whose father and step-mother (Donald E. Murray and Marji Dodrill) are kind of grouchy and don’t have much time for him. Tommy and his friends fall in with a creepy church janitor, who instructs them on how to rid the world of grown-ups.

A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.

Marie faces her first day on the job as a social care worker. Despite her optimism, a house call to a family in crisis quickly brings her down to reality.

Our parents' lessons whisper through our lives like secrets in the wind.

Meet nine-year-old Kelly Marble. She never really meant to kill her parents.

A doctor takes an attractive nurse into his home to help his wife through her convalescence.

Wednesday's Child is a United States adoption television program aimed at matching economically disadvantaged younger and young-adult children to possible foster parents. The program is underwritten by the Freddie Mac Foundation, the philanthropic wing of the Freddie Mac mortgage company, and is broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company.

A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.

A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.