letter to editor

The Editor,
Bay of Plenty Times.
5th July 2017,
 In this beautiful Bay of Plenty we have young men and women who become champions on the world stage, Peter Burling being the latest global champion. They come from loving homes, and the community wraps around them positively and they have good lives.
What is wrong with parents who cannot care for their children, who prefer to get stoned on drugs, be Drunk, and fail to love and nurture their babies.
Why will some parents not give a hoot as to what happens to their young?  When so much help is given by society, why do men and women have children if they cannot care for them, or care about them.
Many parents may not have a great deal of money but make fabulous loving caring parents, and their children do well. But for those people who have babies then neglect, abuse, or kill them, society has to set stronger standards If they want to have financial support from society.
We need to debate the solutions for we cannot go on repeating shocking statistics. It requires all of us to find answers as too many children are suffering, and they are all special and deserving of loving caring pathways in life.
Margaret Murray-Benge
Bethlehem