Law / No Minors Allowed To Leave Poland Without Parental Legal Consent? [4]

I know a woman in Poland that never married and has a 4 year old girl. The father comes and visits once in a while, sometimes he doesn't pay any child support. The woman is raising the child and living at her father's house. She tends to have a less than friendly relationship with the ex-boyfriend who has since moved on to other girls.

What are the chances that this woman could leave Poland with her child (no passport for the child) without the express consent of her ex-boyfriend? She can go to Germany, I guess, but I am not sure she can take the child with her on those trips. Will she have to wait until that child turns 18 in order to be able to leave Poland with her, IF the child's father never gives the little girl permission to leave the country with her mother. Are Polish girls that have never married or that are divorced with minor children may be STUCK in Poland until such children turn 18? Sounds to me like, for an American, he or she is better off dating childless singles or men/women with no children under the age of 18 if they want to bring them to America or elsewhere. True?