I can tell you it's been a lot of struggle. Again, I'm 32 and I sit in a classroom with many 19-year-olds who have many family supports or other 19- or 20-year-olds who don't. I'm 32. I'm up against a lot of people who do have the support to be in university, but for me, it's a lot of struggle. I have to work. I have to volunteer. I have to care for my children. So something is lacking sometimes. I don't spend as much time with my children as I wish I could. I do it because I have to. I have to get ahead and I have to be able to help other people in similar situations. But some of us don't have the fortitude to do that. Some of us need that time.
We've gone through a lot of things in our lives. For me personally, it was sexual and physical abuse. To have time to actually just be present in my own life would be a huge support, a huge help. There's a lot of healing time that we miss out on. How did we come this way? We're a very resilient people. Some of us are willing to get up and fight every day, but there are some people who are not. Again, I bring you back to our prison systems and our streets when we're talking, where 70% or more of those people didn't have families.