with me through domestic violence and stuff like that….
Everything just slowly but gradually just disappeared away from me, everything.
All your ambitions just go right out the window when you’re in about drugs like that, especially. You’re just caring about where your next fix is coming from. You’re not caring about where your bills are coming from or your heat’s coming from. You only
care about that when you’re sober.” (Female, 30-34, urban)
The quantitative evidence on the extent of child contact among adults facing SMD in Scotland is difficult to compare with the English Hard Edges study for reasons noted above, but does appear to suggest that a somewhat lower proportion of people undergoing drug treatment may have child contact. It is clear that the form of child contact varies systematically with level of SMD. For example, adults in drug treatment are less likely to live with their own children but more likely to have contact on a non-residential basis, especially those in the original SMD(3D) triumvirate. A majority of prisoners in the SPS survey have children, but progressively less of them are involved in their care or receiving visits from them the higher the level of SMD, particularly where homelessness is involved (see Bramley et al (2019), Table 39).
