High time State fostered a new attitude to its Mollys and mums

Until we face revisit some of the worst legislation ever passed in Ireland, Molly and her foster mum, and all the other Mollys who need our support, will never get the justice to which they

I’mmarried to a woman who gave up a professional career a lifetime ago. She made the choice to devote herself fulltime to raising a child with an intellectual disability. He says she has paid a heavy price for it, because she herself has lived as a dependent ever since.

She is considerably more talented than I am, in every imaginable respect, but that has counted for little. When she reached retirement age, for instance, she was told that the only basis on which she could qualify for a pension was as my dependent. Not now, and not ever, in her own right.