WHAT very strange sentiments by Masihur Table (Letters, May 19). If "children are a problem and nuisance for their parents" and, said parents feel relief when rid of their children, what on earth makes him think that the rest of us should be saddled with them?

Good parents, on the whole, raise decent children who tend to follow a self-imposed curfew.

All children, at some time, are rebellious, but discipline, tempered with love, always got the desired results for myself and my contemporaries. And exclusions from school were rarely heard of.

The 'fed-up' parents Mr Table speaks of are the problem families of the 'effing and blinding' variety, who couldn't care less what their children are up to as long as they keep out of their way.

And then they wonder why they develop into badly-behaved, foul-mouthed vandals with respect for nothing and nobody.

Good example is all that is required and many of today's young hooligans who grace our TV screens every day get precious little of that.

J CROWTHER, Carlinghurst Road, Blackburn.

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