
'The heart wrenching moment my baby was taken'
A woman has told 5 Live Daily how she building a new life after her four children were taken into care.
A woman has told 成人快手 5 Live how she building a new life after her four children were taken into care.
Joanne (not her real name) had already had two sons taken into care when she became pregnant for a third time.
She had been in a violent relationship with a drug addict, and became hooked herself.
Midway through her third pregnancy, by a different man who was already off the scene, Joanne was told that social services would take her new baby into care as soon as he was born.
She told 成人快手 Radio 5 live鈥檚 Jim Taylor that she does not blame the authorities for taking that decision.
"To carry a baby around for nine months, to lay there knowing that he's getting taken away the next day, is pretty goddam hard, I had nowhere to live, I was using drugs. Basically it was unstable for a baby to be around me."
Joanne is now part of a The Pause project, which aims to reduce the number of children taken into care by offering contraception to vulnerable women, which has been extended to work across England.
This clip is from 5 live Daily on Monday 7 November 2016.
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