Visiting Centre Transcript

Mum - "It's dead noisy isn't it? Loads of kids running around."

Dad - "Yeah, all these chairs are normally full on our visit. You sit upstairs and wait to come down and you get about an hour and a half isn't it?"

Mum - "Do you like it in here?"

Daughter - "No. I just want to play in there."

Mum - "My first visit coming here it was horrible. The first time I ever came here to visit you it broke my heart. All I did was cry."

Dad - "You can't touch each other at all can you?"

Mum - "No you're told to sit back in your seats like this."

Dad - "And I've got to stay in this green seat"

Interviewer - "Why is that?"

Dad - "So they know where you are. To stop us walking round constantly. In fact, we're married but you can't have a cuddle and a kiss and that."

Mum - "I love to see my husband, I really enjoy seeing him and I know Sarah likes to see her dad but the situation it's horrible, and in the visitors room they do get bored. Sometime before the visit's finished they ask 'Oh mum, can we go? Can we go?'. It makes me feel awful for dad."