ABSTRACT
Although the debilitating strain of playwork, and the high levels of transference playworkers are absorbing, is slowly being realised, the pressure on playworkers in the past has been massive. I remember a woman coming to one of our National Meetings and being appalled at how many of us smoked and how many we smoked, too. In the early days a time serving playworker lasted about six months. One of the main pressures is on playworkers’ relationships, particularly marriages. It is ironic, that in an area of work which is so dedicated to other people’s children, there are so many divorces. I wrote this song just after I had moved out of my home into another house, after my own divorce. The impact of its affect on me is as powerful now as when I wrote it.
