Watching Neil Morrissey's personal journey in the excellent Care Home Kid documentary last week provoked so many emotions. Not least was a deep sadness about the lasting impact of being separated from your birth family (even when it might be in your best interests) and the resulting feelings of rejection and loneliness that this ‘lucky' and successful graduate of the care system still carried with him.
As he said, his ‘case' had been closed when he was still a teenager, but the impact of his experiences will always be with him. I'm sure other people with similar life histories would agree with that statement, and over the years I've met many adults who in middle age or older are still dealing with what happened to them during their childhood in care. But the system fails to recognise this.
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