She filled page after page: letters to Leo, stories of young mothers erased by shame, poems about the cruelty of “proper timing.”
Maya handed over her ID. “I’m twenty-two. My son is two. Tell me — what’s wrong with my age ?” She filled page after page: letters to Leo,
One afternoon, a social worker visited her apartment. An anonymous complaint: A minor mother, unfit environment. Tell me — what’s wrong with my age
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But Maya had Leo at twenty, after a brief, intense relationship that crumbled before his first birthday. She worked nights at a diner, studied for her GED in the early mornings, and still managed to read Leo bedtime stories.
That morning, a cashier had asked if she was Leo’s babysitter. The pediatrician assumed she was the teenage nanny. Even her own mother, when Maya announced her pregnancy at nineteen, had said: “What’s wrong with you? You’re still a child.”