Family Secrets

- Season 1

(2023)

Birth Mothers Never Forget follows the story of a woman who as a teenager was forced to give up her first-born son for adoption. Still haunted by her decision thirty-six years later, she faces a roller coaster of emotions as her eldest daughter prepares for the birth of her first child.

Birthdays are a time for celebration, but rather than celebrate with his family, a young man resorts to drugs, alcohol and sleep. His sister is increasingly concerned that her slacker brother will follow in the footsteps of their mother, who drank herself to death.

A son asks his father "How does it feel to be a grandmother?" The father responds "I'm too young to be a grandmother". Meet Debbie, the once-married father of two teenage sons who decides that in order to be his true self, he must live his life as a woman.

A woman learns the baby she's carrying will be stillborn. But after months of intense grief, she discovers an inner-strength and vocation that helps her find a new place in her community and resume her life.

No one said love was easy, especially when a couple's only means of contact is through a bullet-proof window. Following her convict lover from one maximum-security facility to another has caused a prison social worker to leave her family and relinquish her own 'freedom'.

A well-adjusted couple in their 20s want to have kids. When the young woman discovers she may never conceive, she tries to balance fertility treatments with familial pressure.

Starving herself to ' look the part' has finally caught up with a former competitive junior skater. After being diagnosed as anorexic, 15 years later, she must compete with her inner demons to get her life back on course.