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