I cut contact with my mum eight years ago like Brooklyn – it meant losing my brothers, but it was the right decision

MONIKA Gostic’s childhood was not a happy one. Now 37, she remembers being given adult responsibilities from the age of six or seven including preparing meals around the house.  Life growing up in Hungary* was chaotic, unpredictable and sometimes violent. “I distinctly remember being disciplined with wooden spoons that would sometimes break,” she says.  “At…