Name: What happens when your mum goes to prison? | BBC Ideas
Uploaded: 2025-10-01T19:09:17.000Z
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Mummy's in a castle with big dogs and concrete floors.

Mummy's in a castle with security guards and bolted doors.

Past simple

Just the sheer shock, I think my children screaming

Having your mum go to prison is a really serious,

traumatic event for children, many children,

because they haven't been prepared for it,

because they don't know what's going to happen.

I didn't have anything packed or anything ready

then there would be a bit of an adjournment and

with sentencing, then she can be sent to prison

I was prepared that I may not be returning home,

A lot of emotion, a fear for my children.

which of her siblings would stay together.

she lost her siblings and that's something

When they've experienced something that difficult in their childhood,

it's very confusing, it's very frightening,

to have just been sad that their mum has gone.

for mothers and children are allowed to exist

with a social worker that she didn't know

because there's nobody at home waiting for me.

I understood that I was receiving the punishment.

And I worried about what they might think.

I also think that I'd been through so much adversity

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