Home for Unwed Mothers Stories Updated 2025

Did you stay in a Home for Unwed Mothers in the 1950s, 1960s or 1970s?

I'm doing writing research for a television show and I would love to hear your story.

Also - long shot - but if you had a Black baby boy in 1969 in Chicago and gave him up for adoption - you just might be my brother's bio mom! Your name is Shirley Mae. You named him Wayne Terry. He heard he has a sister who also grew up in an adoptive family.

 

We would love to meet you.

Email me, Susan Marks at doll(dot)documentary(at symbol)gmail(dot)com

Betty Crocker Search for Homemaker of Tomorrow Scholarship Scrapbook

I am collecting your Betty Crocker Search for the All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow Scholarship photos and memorabilia! 

Send them to me at doll dot documentary at gmail dot com and I will post to this online scrapbook post. If you want to read winners/participant stories go here.

(Recently a gentleman sent me his photos and story and his email has mysteriously disappeared. If you read this, do you mind re-sending? I'm terribly sorry that I can't find it and would love to include your photos.)

Test questions from the Betty Crocker Search for the All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow  - 1956

Test questions from the Betty Crocker Search for the All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow  - 1956