“So when I grew up, I became a teacher and I remember seeing all these kids’ eyes. And I remember thinking, ‘Wow, they’re going through something. I don’t know what it is, but they’re definitely going through something.’
It was the lack of eye contact and it was looking down when you talk to them. And if you ask how everything was and ‘How’s everything at home?’ or ‘What are you doing this weekend?’ And it was cricket silence. They wouldn’t say anything.
And I realized how many - you said the 11 million statistic and that’s disheartening to me because that means basically they say 1 in 5 - and that’s just alcoholism. That’s not even all the other dysfunctional things that children are going through.”
