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