Daly, Michelle

Michelle Daly was kicked out of school at age fifteen with a reference stating, "Michelle thinks life is one big joke." She went on to work with children in residential care and in 1972 at nineteen, became the youngest single woman in Britain to obtain legal guardianship of a child; Marie, a seven year-old with mental and physical disabilities. In 1990 they moved to Ireland, a country she refers to as her second home, where she home-schooled her two children, Patrick and Anna. Michelle is an advocate for children's rights and people with special needs. She lives with Marie in Liverpool.