Children and young people - emotional expression

For children and young people, there was at times disruption to their lives and emotional upheaval:

In fact that was her only lifeline really, the phone, and they had the internet at home but we unfortunately didn"t have room. It was hard for her really, and for [my daughters]. They had to share a bedroom and teenage girls need that space. She was from a large family, she was one of five and she really missed them. In fact, she went home. It got to a stage where she said she was going home regardless. The family just wasn"t coping, you know, without her, and she wasn"t coping either. I mean she never said, or anything like that, but you could tell when she came off the phone, she would go to the bathroom and I"m sure she had a little cry when she was in the bathroom by her self.

My daughter particularly, because a lot of her friends are from farming families. I had been sorta really…she was concerned from the point of view that she was coming up to exams and things cos she wanted to be at school, but she was also concerned about putting her friends at risk…as it turned out, I think it was about half a dozen of them ended up where they lost their animals anyway, and I don"t know even to this day if she doesn"t think, I should have stayed away, or it might have been my fault or something like that. I think because people didn"t know enough about it, that"s the kinda thing that was being

(Small business, interview, 2002)

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