The response by a bevy of local minions giving vent to a long cherished rancour appears more obsessed with women’s rights than problems in the home (BDN, 19/12).

Not one of their poison pen letters contained a helpful suggestion or idea in solving violence in the home. 

In fact their letters only go to confirm that the problem is a two-way street.

My original letter was prompted by the weekly reports in the media about new born babies being thrown down pits, abandoned in wheelie bins or buried in sand dunes. 

All we get is we have to feel sorry for these missing criminal mothers, and never feeling sorry for the dead babies.

On July 28 in a letter to the editor I castigated the Bega Valley Shire Council for the collection and storage of dangerous chemicals during the toxic waste disposal operation that was located outside the children’s playground in Pambula.

All these toxic chemicals are harmful to babies, young children and pregnant females. 

I have no record that these poison pen letter writers stirred themselves to help or any other female organisation showed any interest in my quest to protect young families.

However, I have their attention now.

I cannot help you if you have no knowledge of human frailties. 

However, these hysterical and nagging poison pen letter writers and their crocodile tears carry no weight with me.

You have all sat and watched Tony Abbott heap loads of abuse on Julia Gillard under the protection of Parliamentary privilege.  

If we intend to help in any way, and lower the queues at the Family Court, I believe the mysteries of the female gender should be a subject in the school curriculum.

Or are you just going to sit around whinging and moaning and doing nothing?

Ivor G Williams

Pambula