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Like thousands of girls their age, Amy and Hannah both love reading books by Jacqueline Wilson. It's quite comforting, says Hannah, to read those stories about a girl whose experiences are in some ways like her own. "Yes," agrees Amy, "because it's about a lassie whose dad's been battering their mum. Just like with us."
Amy, an outgoing, fun-loving, football-mad 13-year-old, has been living in a Glasgow Women's Aid refuge - a residential centre for women who have fled domestic abuse - for seven months. Back at home she would feign illness so she could stay off school because she didn't want to leave her mother alone with her father.See the full content of this document
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Children Who Have Seen Too Much
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