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"For about the first six months after my parents split up I lived with mum and she wouldn't let me see my dad. Then it went to once a week and then weekends, but it wasn't working out. Mum was being underhand, like she would take me out so he couldn't pick me up. It was hard 'cos I was quite close to him as well as my mum - he always made me feel comfortable. Then I decided that I wanted like one week each. I wanted to keep my mum happy still and I wanted to keep my dad happy, so I thought a week at each house, but mum didn't want that. She wouldn't let me take anything to dad's house... the only way I could get things out was by hiding them."

Female, 17