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Sat 03 Mar 2003The parenting trap: three families set out what they want
'I want to realise my ambition to pay tax' :Kelly Fitzgerald (19) and Alan McCabe (2) from Jobstown, west Dublin.Want: Affordable childcare, a chance to get an education and a good job.
If she had the bottle, Kelly Fitzgerald would love to give the family forum a piece of her mind. And this bright single mother has a lot to say. Since she was at school, she has always wanted to be a counsellor. But her ambitions to go to university went astray when she became pregnant at 16 and abandoned her studies following her Junior Certificate.
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