DOCTOR Ujarak Beenad’s recent paper linking women’s emancipation to the breakdown of Western family life certainly merits serious consideration.
Dr Beenad’s claims that since early 20th Century, Western women have put personal ambition before the needs of the family group resulting in a “latch key” society whereby children feel isolated and insecure.
While not necessarily my own view, Dr Beenad references Baroness Thatcher’s relationship with her children, Mark and Carol, citing Mark’s feelings of insecurity and inadequacy and Carol’s inability to form relationships being a direct result of Maggie’s indifference to family values.
Other women are implicated in his study but none as relevant to a modern day United Kingdom. It would be interesting to hear the views of the opposite sex on the matter.
Kev McStravick, Darlington.
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