Tunnel-vision approach of child rights groups

WE in Mothers At Home agree fully with the sentiments expressed by Maireád Scannell (Letters, January 16) concerning the tunnel-visioned approach to child abuse by children’s rights organisations like One in Four and Barnardos.

These groups proclaim themselves as protagonists for children’s rights, yet they appear, as Ms Scannell rightly said, “deaf, dumb and blind” to the State’s persistent denial of most of the fundamental rights of every child.

Ms Scannell listed some of those fundamental rights. Mothers at Home would like to highlight another one — on which One in Four and Barnardos have also been strangely silent, ie, the right of children under the age of three to be cared for in their own home by their own parents.