Split by love and spite

GROWING up with divorced parents, Anne Soo*, 33, recalls her mother trying to “brainwash” her by saying negative things about her father.

“She told me that he won’t be able to take care of me. I’ll get a stepmother who’ll ill-treat me and I wouldn’t be able to see my brother anymore. I’d also have to change schools and never see my friends again,” says the office clerk, who had initially wanted to stay with her father.