The BBC1 Documentary
' I feel that every programme that we watch on TV of children in trouble with the police, they all seem to come from broken homes, and Paul has a tendency to steal. He knows it's wrong, I mean we can't fathom it out, he knows what he's doing.'
(Stepmother of Paul, aged eight)
' She said to me, when I grow up and have children, Mummy, I'm going to make sure that I live with the Daddy all the time because if I don't they'll be unhappy and I'll understand how they feel.'
(Mother of Natasha, aged seven)
More than 200,000 children a year are victims of divorce, half of them under 11. Joan Bakewell reports on what happens to the children when a marriage breaks up, starting with that traumatic day when a father has what is called ' access' to his children.
Research GINNY SYKES Film cameramen
JIM PEIRSON , DAVID HUTCHINS Film editor eric BROWN
Producer HARRY WEISBLOOM