November 14, 2010

Dear Sir,

During my 34 years with the Bermuda Police I was generally not noted for seeing eye to eye with the Top Brass, but I have to agree with the comments of retired Assistant Commissioner Carlton Adams in today's RG (15 Nov) concerning gangs and general "juvenile unruliness". I have to place most of the blame for the current situation on a) the overly casual Bermudian attitude towards sex and reproduction, and b) the fact that there are so many absentee fathers and therefore so many single-parent families. I know that this letter probably won't make a blind bit of difference, but I would seriously urge women to stop this casual mass-production of assorted offspring, and men to step up to the plate and accept responsibility for any child you do father. Disciplining of children has to start in the home, it has to start from birth, and it has to be done by the parents: not the child's teachers; not the Police; not Social Services or any other outside organisation: the parents!

DAVIE KERR

Onich, Scotland