QUOTE : Amma wanted her daughter to be free, feminist and powerful<br />Later she took her on personal development courses for children to give her the confidence and articulacy to flourish in any setting<br />Big mistake<br />Mum, Yazz said at fourteen when she was pitching to go to Reading Music Festival with her friends, it would be to the detriment of my juvenile development if you curtailed my activities at this critical stage in my journey towards becoming the independent-minded and fully self-expressed adult you expect me to be, I mean, do you really want me rebelling against your old-fashioned rules by running away from the safety of my home to live on the streets and having to resort to prostitution to survive and thereafter drug addiction, crime, anorexia and abusive relationships with exploitative bastards twice my age before my early demise in a crack house?<br />Amma fretted the whole weekend her little girl way away