We Thought Our Parents Had No Way to Track Us in the 1980s. We Couldn’t Have Been More Wrong.

What we didn’t realize was that our mothers had already built something far more powerful than modern technology.

It was called the Mom Network.

And once it was activated, there was nowhere to hide.

The Only Phone in the House

In our home, the only telephone was attached to the kitchen wall.

It had a long cord that stretched halfway across the room.