Very well said to all posters that are bringing up the fact the twins’ dad just up and left. Regardless of the fact they started their lives in Australia... things happen, life happens. If he’s doing a job over there he couldn’t possibly do over this side of the world I would have some sympathy. Other than that nah... GONE (to paraphrase Julie)
It takes a village. It really does. There are twins in my family and one goes one way the other goes the other way, they are such hard work. To the people who are slagging her off for being on social welfare, what would you rather? She go into a mother and baby home? That’s how Ireland used to “deal” with unmarried mothers. Would you prefer that she was tucked away on a mountain where you didnt have to see her rubbing it in your face? I find it absolutely heartbreaking reading the comments about her sometimes because I was once on social welfare bringing up my child. It’s absolute no life to live, for a reason. No one could live like that long term. Something a woman at the school (a recently divorced woman at the time) said to me always stuck with me. She said nobody plans this life, sometimes life happens. I didn’t plan to become a single Mam. I’d worked since I was 15. I was with him since I was 19 and we night a house. A house I got nothing for. How secure are you in your relationships where you depend on a man, you may work, as I did, but could you afford to keep up the mortgage and buy him out too? I couldn’t. I lost my home and he moved a 25 year old in and they have kids now and my child is forgotten. Thank god for social welfare or what would we have done? Into a Magdalene Laundry? Is that what you’d prefer?
Ireland has such a shameful history with regards to women and their babies. I never knew it was woman perpetuating this narrative until it happened at my front door. It could happen to any one of you. Please, let’s change this! Why isn’t it the men walking away that are shamed? I just don’t get it.