Now listen again to Jane Gordon and Rex
Courier while you check the transcription of their phone-in
conversation.
REX:
... and we've got Jane
on the line next. Hello Jane.
JANE:
Oh, hello. Erm I'm
ringing about a problem.
REX:
Right.
JANE:
I've got two children
from a first marriage, well they're
teenagers really, a boy of sixteen and a,
and a girl of fourteen ...
REX:
Uh-huh.
JANE:
... and I've just had
another baby in an, a second relationship.
REX:
Mmm.
JANE:
And my son just, he,
he's very, he's very um, oh, he, he's upset
about it but he, he wo-, he won't even look at
the baby.
REX:
Yeah. Wh-why, why do you
think he's upset? Wh-what do you think's
behind it, Jane?
JANE:
He said because this
one's getting everything he never had.
REX:
Yeah. And I can hear you
must be upset about this.
JANE:
Yeah.
REX:
Yeah. How old's the
baby?
JANE:
Five weeks.
REX:
Five weeks? Oh, it's
very little, isn't it? And are you at home
coping with the whole business?
JANE:
Well, my, my partner's
off. He's just gone shopping.
REX:
Mmhmm.
JANE:
It, it's just my son,
it, we've always been very close and he, he
had a really rough time with his father, and
erm from the, from the age of nine it, it was
a very bad, and, and, and I wanted to end the
relationship, his father didn't, and his
father used to take it out on my son because
my son always sided with me. And now my son
feels that he always stood by me and took my
side and now I, I got this baby which I'm
giving it a father and a stable relationship,
everything he didn't have ...
REX:
Mmm.
JANE:
... and he, he, he feels
resentful.
REX:
Well, I think in a, er
what seems to be happening is that he's
loading up quite a lot of anger on to you ...
JANE:
Yeah.
REX:
... which perhaps
belongs to his father ...
JANE:
It is ... but you see he
can't ...
REX:
... rather than
you.Well,
JANE:
... I mean, if, if he
tries to speak to his father, his father's a
very domineering ...
REX:
Yes.
JANE:
... and a sarcastic
character.
REX:
Where-whereas you're a
good mum and you're there and therefore you're
the person who's easy available to him and he
can do this to you.
JANE:
Yes.
REX:
The trouble is it's very
damaging when you have a five-week old baby,
isn't it?
JANE:
Yes.
REX:
Now, let's concentrate
on you to start with, but we will go on to
your son in a minute. Now, how did all this
start? Was it, was it something that happened?
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