Navina Clemerson (Letters, July 14) is right to condemn the jailing of a mother of
small children. She’s right to point to money being more important than
children, that in New Zealand children are of no account, and that when they
grow up we may have to pay for our contempt.
Only we won’t have to wait. We’re paying right now. The evidence is
everywhere – for instance, this mother’s offending - that our society has already lost
respect. And that’s because we have no care or compassion for the smallest children,
those yet to be born.
Children’s welfare will ‘truly come first’ only when we show care and compassion
for all children, not just the ones we can see.
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