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 them, society has to set stronger standards If the parents want to have financial support from society.
We need to debate the solutions, 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
We are one people
Most television viewers seem unaware that the current presentation of the Maori chant Tutira Mai, " Stand together" flooding their screens and involving a multitude of groups nationwide, supporting the All Blacks in the tests, is almost identical in translation and certainly in sentiment to Hobson's Pledge, "He Iwi tahi Tatou" "We are one People," yet this proposal is vilified in the media while the other is celebrated.
Bryan Johnson
Omokoroa
Fire brigade needed
So another house fire in Welcome Bay and the house was well involved when the fire service arrived ... it wouldn't have been if we had a fire service here in Welcome Bay.
Alan Ryan
Welcome Bay
We can do better
Regarding the housing area in Opal Drive (News, June 24) I question why the preferred site is right next to a sewerage pumping station. Come on, Tauranga, you can do better than this. Would you live there?
Brian Millar
Tauranga
