• 22/07/2022
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At 17, victim of an unstable family situation, William spent almost half of his life in the home he tells<

A childhood made of painful, but also happy moments, including William, a big guy with brown hair, has no trouble talking about.Bad memories are what they are, life is what it is."We deal with it".He was never ashamed to be a home child, "unlike others, especially when I was younger," he said.And with hindsight, he rather sees it "as a chance".

"My mother cut the bridges"

It all started when he was 7 years old.At home, these are repeated clashes, first verbal, then physical."At the beginning we had a little communication problem with my mother, we did not get along very well.And then it evolved in bad.We were arguing often.For futile things when I think about it, but it went so far "that we fought".Several times".

For the mother as for her son the situation becomes unlivable.William is aware that he was not an easy child.He describes himself as "turbulent, perhaps a little more than the others.It is true that I refused the no, that I did not like what I considered as injustice ".

The memories are a little blurred, but he remembers an afternoon face to face with a social worker."She asked me how it was at home, I explained to her what was going on and she told me that it was not normal".He was placed in a home just after.

"For me, my mother was in denial.She cut the bridges.I thought she had abandoned me ".

back home

At 9 years old, William spends two months with a childminder "in the mountains".Everything is done to put it in the best measures.He knows it, but does not understand why everything is going so well with these strangers when nothing goes at home."As everything went well, I am putting me home.It was worse than before.I fought almost every day with my mother.It was hell.Even between my mother and my father it was not going.Financial problems poisoned the family environment ".

It's going so bad that we decide to keep him away again.He is 10 years old.Another new place where you have to take your marks and make your place.Direction the Emergency Foyer of the Trinity, the Parenthesis.The institution had just opened its doors."It was often argued there, I saw children doing crises and it scared me sometimes, but the head of service was however able to make the environment healthier we will say".