Mary McCarthy

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1,469 appearances 8 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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Today with David McCullagh · How would the State encourage people to have more children? · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

So, for example, my daughter, when we lived in Dublin, I can remember when she was picking her subjects for her genius search and the school had like a night where they brought in really successful students.

former peoples in their mid-30s and late 30s and they talked about their high-flying international careers because they took German, then they went off and they worked here, there and everywhere.

And I remember thinking, yeah, this is great to get these role models, but I would actually have loved to have seen kind of

you know, a parent in there saying, well, you know, I, because like, let's say for myself, right, I took out nine years and I had my four kids and I looked at them.

I went back to work.

I'm back in the workforce.

You can do that too.

I'm not just saying to tell that to girls, tell that to boys.

For example, my brother, he has just left like a big firm because he wants more family friendly because he's, you know, he wants to be there to pick up from crash.

And you tell boys and girls, you can do all this.

You can have your career.

But you can do it after you have kids, or you can do both.

And that's where the public, that's where policy comes in to make it easier to have primary school kids.

Honestly, I really think if you had universal aftercare employment schools, you'd actually have less divorce.

I know that sounds like a big jump, but it's so stressful to work, to have kids.

People are just saying, I'm just going to get a dog.

I'm not going to have a third kid.

I'll get a dog because it's too much hassle.

So I think we just need to broaden how we look at it and not to be judgmental at all because life, sometimes it just doesn't work out.

That's the way it works out, that you don't have kids.

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