by Kimina Lyall Features section page 4, The Weekend Review, September 21,22, 1996, "The Australian".

Many children of mentally ill parents never realised that the violence inflicted on them during their youth was abnormal. Kimina Lyall meets a group of people trying bring their childhood out into the open.

By Sian Watkins, The Melbourne Age, 10 August 1996, page A6 

They give exemptions to VCE students who break arms and legs, but not to boys whose mothers slash their wrists with cheap, blunt kitchen knives and who wake their sons at night to tell them they have overdosed.

James, studying for his final-year VCE, lives in a big country town. His mother has bipolar disorder and he has spent most of the past two years alone in their housing commission home while his mother has been in and out of hospital.

By CHLOE SALTAU
13 August 2001
From The Melbourne Age

 Some depressed children at serious risk of suicide are not being psychiatrically treated because of difficulties gaining consent in the mental health system, says a national welfare body.

The National Network of Adult and Adolescent Children who have a Mentally ill Parent has written to the Victorian Government about the case of a 15-year-0ld girl whose parents suffer from severe psychiatric disorders.