Re: ‘High time CYF gets attention' (The Sun, April 15). M Brooks is wrong – yet again! She is either enamoured by her blue-tinted spectacles or just too close-minded to look past the end of her nose for the cause of the epidemic she is blaming mostly on Maori.

Contrary to what she believes, it is the Government's fault!

They encourage people to be irresponsible and have children they do not want and cannot afford to house or feed, by offering them incentives, other people's money, benefits and housing to breed. There are scores of handouts to be had, and hordes of paid goverment employees further sucking the lifeblood from the productive
to ensure those who shout the loudest receive them.

She truly is a busybody of the highest order dictating what Maori should do with the reparation they received from the system for past grievances.

Her solution to the problem is to force further government imposition on us by having the monopoly on the education system teach parenting skills. This is the organisation 'responsible” for the problem to 'fix” it!

G Clark, Lower Kaimai.