Slackness abounds
published: Thursday | June 8, 2006

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I WISH to add my voice to Kevin O'Brien Chang's article in your publication of Sunday June 4, 2006 entitled 'Welcome to the isle of slackness'.

I agree that we need to revamp our image of being a promiscuous, permissive society where slackness and adultery are glorified. If I may quote from the article - "No one is proposing legislation with firm penalties for men who neglect their offspring, and words alone change nothing. Some thought a woman Prime Minister might champion family value laws, but the 'mother of the nation' seems just as comfortable with the status quo as her male counterparts. Judges want fathers charged with children's crimes, yet few care about putting fathers' names on birth certificates."

It is full time that we come to grips with what statistics have proven that the majority of crimes committed in our country are done by men who are fatherless. It is high time that the issue of fatherlessness of the majority of our population is addressed and given the priority it deserves.

I am, etc.,

PAULINE SMITH

psmithjam@hotmail.com

Kingston 20