Childless Mother

<p>1970 pre-Choice America. After their eighth move in her thirteen short years the lonely only child of a high-ranking naval officer and a socially ambitious mother Tracy Mayo longed for a normal adolescence - to have friends to feel rooted. What she got was a pregnancy at fourteen and exile to a maternity home. There she bore not only a child but also the weight of the culture's shame. She was required to surrender her baby boy at birth and pretend it never happened. Twenty-two years later her longing undiminished Tracy set out to find him - and perhaps through her search to reclaim her self. Are we moving back to a world where women have no agency stripped of control of their bodies and their futures? More than fifty years after one frightened grief-stricken young mother was ordered to forget Tracy's story is even more important to remember.</p><p>__________________________________________________</p><p><br></p><p>In her courageous and beautifully rendered memoir Childless Mother Tracy Mayo breaks ranks with the institutionalized secrecy shame and silencing that shattered countless pregnant girls and young women prior to legalized abortion and open adoption. </p><p>- KATE MOSES author of Wintering Cakewalk: A Memoir and Mothers Who Think</p>