Holding Back the Tears

Based on a true Scottish story, when life was so different back in the sixties with no mobile phones or social media, or helplines for domestic abuse.

When separated from your child during divorce, finding information on your rights was not so easily available with no internet.

Authorities took very little or no notice of your needs.

This story is powerful poignant moving touching anyone's heart.

After losing a son to suicide his mother finds her hands tied, fighting to gain the knowledge to have her rights acknowledged, only to find how little control she has over the outcome.

Years later accepting her beliefs as a mother are still Identified, for no one can remove the fact she gave birth to her son.

Written in a gentle flowing style not to dramatise the event surrounding the trauma of her son's death.

Eventually holding an private memorial service of her own doing since being excluded from her rights to choose where her child shall lay to rest.

Along with the exclusion of no mention of his mother on his headstone.

Finally getting her life on track after a long Journey of accusations thrown at her, none of which held any proof of existence.

Proud to have given birth to her beautiful boy, her life turns around, when she accepts her role of being a mother cannot be taken away, at any costs.