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Child 1

You lose the value of place of your own. You lose that whole thing. You lose that whole – and plus, you lose your self-respect in a way. When you keep moving from place to place, you lose yourself and your self-respect as well goes along with it. And once you lose that, I think that’s where most kids actually ended up in criminal stuffs because they lost themselves in that way.

Child 2

Tell you the truth, social services are my family. They are my family. I mean, my social worker, Joy, before I actually became leaving care – independent, you might as well say – she was always telling me, Edna, I ain’t going to be your social worker anymore. You’re going to have to keep going to duty.

You could ask her now. I’m still pestering her. And it’s not the fact that I’m scared to go to somebody else, duty or whatever, but it’s just the fact that they’re my family; I could call any one of them when I need help. I mean, I might as well say they’re the ones that have taught me how to become a woman, how to live independently and any complicated question – the questions that your parents are supposed to be answering, they answer it for me, so. I don’t know.

Child 3

The fact that they hear that you’re in care, to them, kids in care are bad. And some kids are in care because – I don’t know how they’ve been brought up – but because they act bad, people see that every child in care is bad as well.

Child 4

The only person I’ll consider is important to me now, there’s only me. Because a lot of life I went through that teach it – that teach me, the only person I can depend on is me.