“You are ten years old and everyone tells you that you have to take care of your mother, and you take it as a law. She is in bed all day, so it is I who takes care of my one-year-old brother, who gives him his food, who makes his bottle, who wakes up at night to attend to him, and who takes care of the house. To me, it was not strange; just as I did my school homework, well, I also did all of that,” recalls Leticia Paullada, 37, about the responsibilities she assumed during her childhood. Two years after her parents separated, Leticia’s father died. The loss plunged her mother into a depression, and she went back to using drugs. It was then that Leticia, unintentionally, began to assume the role of mother.