Teaching boys

We have to grow our boys differently for us to reap a better society. We have to instil in them the value of hard work and positive ambitions. We need to train them on how to solve their problems and how to treat members of the opposite sex. We need to get them to change focus from material wealth to moral wealth.

Jamaica will never be better if those of us who study and/or work hard to achieve our goals are seen as nerds and sissies. Wealth without work is suicidal, it can't last. Let us endeavour to rescue our boys from this precipice they are jumping off. Let us make right be right as it should.

Boys must be taught the value of hard work and education; how to love and fear God and be good to mankind. They must know that people are more important that property, and that with hard and wise work they can be whatever they want to be.

- Claud A. Rowe, cashleyrho@yahoo.com, Windsor, NC

I agree with the distribution of condoms in schools, but not only in schools and other places of learning. I am recommending that it should also be distributed in business places and homes.

The reason for saying this is that there are too many unwanted children on our nation's streets and in other places. Children get warning about having sex too early when they are not ready for parenthood, but this warning falls in the wind; you cannot stop children from having sex in this day and time. Every time I visit the hospital and look in the maternity ward, it is mostly children having children and this is not good for the economy; it has to stop, Education is the key to success.

I believe that birth control such as using condoms will help stop this problem.

- Robert Lewars, lewars72@yahoo.com, Server in the Anglican Church in Jamaica & the Cayman Islands

I had scarcely completed digesting Dr David Thwaites' revelation that he had done 'thousands of abortions' when Professor Fletcher of the University Hospital made his revelation that 94 per cent of obstetricians/gynaecologists in the Corporate Area had done first trimester abortions.

So now we know this abortion debate may not firstly be about saving the unemployed Olympic Way woman from the coat hanger, but that maybe it is more about sanitising the actions of doctors who have over the decades flouted the law with impunity! What right do we have to condemn the actions of policemen who overstep the law in the execution of their duties if we cannot condemn the actions of these doctors? After all, they both can give some form of justification! If the law is only for some and not for all, then let's all forget the law, let's do as we like, for there are good reasons so to do!

- S. Richards 2 3/4 Ruthven Road, Kingston 10