Jackie McDonald
speaker
40 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Aug
Jackie McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Becoming a parent is one of the biggest transitions we go through.
It's joyful, but it's also demanding and it can be quite destabilising.
But what we find is that the emotional resources people draw on at that moment were being built long before.
And two things seem to matter.
The first is mental health among new mums and dads who experience real psychological distress in the first year.
More than eight in ten had already shown signs of similar struggles back in their teens or twenties.
So for most, it doesn't come out of nowhere with the baby.
The signs are usually there much earlier.
And the second is the relationship themselves.
Learning early on that you can trust people, building the networks who will be there for you, and leaning on them gives you something to draw on when you're suddenly responsible for a newborn.
So our research provides good evidence that supporting young people's mental health and their relationships isn't only good for them at the time, it's also an investment in how they'll cope and bond as parents years later.
Shameless Media This podcast was recorded on Wurundjeri land.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Yeah, it's a great question.
Those teenage friendships are far from a distraction.
They're actually foundational.
Adolescence is a kind of blueprint building time.
It's when we're working out how relationships actually work.
Whether people can be trusted, how being close feels safe, how you repair things after a fight.
And once we've built that template, we tend to carry it forward and act on it, often without realising.
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