The Child's Voice: The impact of emotional abuse and neglect

Ruairi has a talent for expression. He is able to tell us about the enormous impact of living in an emotionally abusive and neglectful home. Ruairi's poetry is full of difficult emotions and it is not an easy read. Hearing a child's so directly may be uncomfortable because then we have to recognise that our child care and mental health systems support the child well enough.

Ruairi was adopted at four and a half and this book shows just how much children take in before that age. Sadly, Ruai...