THERE’S a little girl in Brisbane, she’s five: cascades of brown hair, huge blue eyes, all cuteness. Speech therapy once a fortnight and a special education program are bringing her up to speed and, hopefully, she’ll be able to go to school this year.
She’s struggling, though. Her development stalled two years ago when her parents split in an ugly eruption of rage, resentment and false accusations. Her mother fled with her in the night amid claims of domestic violence and it would take eight months of police investigations, psychiatric assessments and court proceedings before she was back home with her father, a 33-year-old mechanic named David* whose daughter is the centre of his world. He was devastated to see how she’d grown.
She was at least 4cm taller. Sweet rolls of baby fat, gone. Not to have been there for those incremental changes hurt. Worse – at an age when the little girl should have been babbling like a brook, labelling the world and her place in it, she was able to speak only three words. They were: Mum, Dad and Sorry.
Full story here:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/headed-for-divorce-find-a-way-to-love-your-kids-more-than-you-hate-your-ex/story-fnihsrf2-1227182490872
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