Urgent intervention needed

THE EDITOR, Sir:

Your 'Monster Moms' headline in Tuesday's Gleaner and the story contained therein is something that all well-thinking Jamaican should abhor.

The stories that mothers push their young daughters, and maybe even their sons, to offer sexual favours to older men is a well-known phenom in Jamaica's gritty inner-city communities. That members of these communities are now prepared to come out and speak about these things in a public forum should be seized upon and the appropriate intervention put in place to deal with all aspects of this sordid affair.

I know there are no quick fixes when it comes to dealing with the myriad problems facing inner-city communities. After all, these are areas that have been neglected by the rest of us to just decay into social and economic malaise, where mothers renting out their daughters is the better option to thieving, going jail or going hungry.

The country needs to move rapidly to address inner-city communities like Tel Aviv, with the resources that is needed to save generations of young men and women from imminent devolution into the monsters their parents before them have sometimes become.

Winston Barrett

Liguanea