Page and Tristan and Scott mention loss
How did it feel having your child taken into care?
“...the only contact I was to have was a letter once a year and no photographs and I wasn’t allowed any other contact with her. And I was gutted isn’t quite the word I would use,”
When did you start to have trouble looking after your child?
“my daughter wouldn’t stop crying and there was nothing I could do that would appease her and I threw her on to the bed, not very hard and slapped her accros her stomach, both which I shouldn’t have done and I felt really really bad”
“At the end of this visit I remember picking my daughter up, giving her a massive hug and I was crying, in fact crying isn’t the word I would use, I was sobbing and she just looked at me and she just threw her arms around me and hugged me ”
What is the hardest thing about adopting?
“...you are always told – don’t over-compensate for their past but it is always in the back of your mind that they have been through such difficult times, that now when they fall on hard times you try and soften it a little bit for them.”