Anita Harrison

It's like a double hidden harm.

So for a lot of our women, many of the women, if you spoke to them today, would say, unless Ashley House is here, that they could bring their child, that they would have never put their hand out to seek treatment.

I have never ever met a woman that said I want to be a bad mother.

Ever.

And yet they're treated like bad mothers when actually all what they needed was support.

Anita Harrison again.

Four out of five women that enter Ashley House have either one or both their parents are in addiction themselves.

So the cycle is intergenerational.

We have women that come in here that are third generation.

Their grandmothers had addictions.

Their mother or father or both had addictions.

And they have.

Absolutely, because as I said, we work with both the parent and their child.

And stopping that separation, you know, it hasn't worked.

It doesn't work.

It hasn't worked for many, many years.

Take a child and remove them when there's a problem in the family.

We're doing that years.

Many of the women here were them children in care.

It didn't work for them.