Facing the facts of life
I don’t like the idea, but I have to face the fact that it happens and the best way of dealing with it is face-on, and not pretending it doesn’t occur.
So, good to Mary Harney for doing something about it. It is more damaging to the child to have a child at 11 than to pop a pill. If parents knew where their 11-year-olds were, then maybe this would not be necessary.
Susan Duffy
2 Killeen Ave
Malahide
Co Dublin
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