Breaking a Mum.
1. Move her across town away from support network and sons nursery.
2. Let her settle.
3. Move her again to another part of London into a single mouse infested room sharing bathroom and kitchen with male strangers.
4. Wait til she has 10 day old baby.
5. Move her again, in the middle of lockdown with only hours notice and no help packing.
6.Let her apply for grants and buy furniture, get settled.
7. Move her again - in the middle of lockdown - to a place too small for her furniture..
8. Hint she will move again soon.
9.Keep her guessing as to where to apply for sons school. Whether to change her GP. Whether to unpack
10. Tell her to stop complaining and be grateful if she asks for some clarity.
Mini k is already adjusting to a new sister. He just wants things to stop all the changes.

"mama i just want to stop moving' he says.

Mama S says. 'i am exhausted, I have had enough - but if i lose it they will call me a bad mother'
Nobody would argue that our care of families under Secrion 17 is designed to brutalise vulnerable women and destabilise at risk children.

But often - it does exactly that.

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