The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths That Shape Us, Ruthie Ackerman

The Mother Code is about the rigid roles and expectations we’re told we have to follow to be mothers–and ultimately how Ruthie attempted to disentangle herself from those messages and figure out how to escape the generational trauma passed down by her family and society.Synthesizing reportage and memoir, The Mother Code unravels how we’ve come to understand the institution of motherhood. What emerges is a groundbreaking new vision for what it means to parent: a mother code that goes beyond our bloodlines and genetics and instead urges us to embrace inheritance as the legacy we want to leave behind for those we love.