Lone parents do not take the easy way out
Only a tiny minority of lone mothers “deliberately get pregnant in order to get a house”.
Councils build houses for ‘traditional’ as well as lone-parent families, and the waiting lists for all types of house are enormous.
In my own case, I didn’t get a council house until my daughter was seven years old.
Before then we lived in extremely cramped conditions and we only obtained this accommodation through the kindness of my daughter’s paternal grand-uncle who was a traditional Irish Catholic in the best possible sense.
As for Kevin Myers “telling it like it is”, those who might share Mr Fitzgerald’s attitude should ask themselves if they had a daughter who got into trouble - and it can happen in any family - would they call their grandchild a ‘bastard’ and their daughter the mother of one?
Judy Peddle
7 Love Lane
Charleville
Co Cork
