"I'm a traveller - I left school at 13 to cook and clean and my daughters will too"
A traveller who dropped out of school at 13 and couldn't drink alcohol before marriage said she likes the strict rules - and would raise her own daughter the same way.
Zoe Lynch, 19, was raised in the Irish traveller community in Naas, County Kildare in Ireland.
She grew up with her parents and siblings in a house until she married Tom Delaney, 19, last year, who she now lives with in a caravan.
She grew up with a strict set of rules and traditional values - including not being allowed to have sleepovers with friends, and learning to cook and clean from age eight.
She left school at 13 and is a full-time housewife while Tom goes out to work - and he pays all their expenses.
Zoe Lynch, 19, was raised in the Irish traveller community in Naas, County Kildare in Ireland.
She grew up with her parents and siblings in a house until she married Tom Delaney, 19, last year, who she now lives with in a caravan.
She grew up with a strict set of rules and traditional values - including not being allowed to have sleepovers with friends, and learning to cook and clean from age eight.
She left school at 13 and is a full-time housewife while Tom goes out to work - and he pays all their expenses.
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00:00I'm going to be telling you things that I as a Traveller girl is not allowed to say in our culture
00:03So, let's say for instance
00:06Okay, all the women is in the house and
00:08let's say, well all the men came to visit your daddy or something
00:12Yeah? Are you allowed to go outside the door when the men is out there?
00:15No you are not! That is forbidden!
00:18Number two is
00:20Let's say if somebody walk into our house, well
00:23we have to say, hello and
00:25do you want tea, do you want food, like you, they have to be like
00:28made welcome, like when they walk in the door of your house
00:31Do you understand? Make them feel like
00:33it's their home, like they can do what they want
00:37Number three is
00:38You have to do everything you are told
00:40You have to clean, cook, mind children, do whatever
00:43You are not allowed to drink or you are not allowed to smoke
00:45before you are married, you are not allowed to go to parties
00:48unless you are with your mummy and daddy
00:51and plus, you are not allowed to go out farting on holidays
00:54by yourself or with girls
00:56before you are married as well
00:58That would not happen in the tribal community
01:00That just would not happen
01:02Unless you are married or something, yes
01:04But before you are married
01:06Unless you are going out with your family, of course you can go on holidays before you are married
01:09Do you understand? But not before you are married