Sir, - Dr Connell's remarks about the "contraceptive culture" are insulting and hurtful to both parents and children and I find it amazing that somebody who has no experience of either bearing or rearing children should feel so confident about making pronouncement on the relationship between parent and child.
But let me assure him that neither I nor any of my peers feel in the slightest bit dishonoured by a "culture" which has liberated us and given us control and has enabled us to live in more open, honest and loving relationships far removed from the downtrodden lives of our mothers and grandmothers. - Yours, etc., Mary T. Carroll,
Booterstown Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin.