Re: Paul D. White's June 17 commentary, "How many children must be sacrificed?"
Bravo! Finally, someone has verbalized what I have been thinking for a long time but could not express as succinctly or as eloquently.
In addition to the five preventive and curative actions White suggested for implementation by the Oxnard political, religious, law enforcement and education "leadership," let me add one more. We need to stop being afraid of setting limits with both the family and the child. The children of many of these single-parent homes run the house, and the parent, usually a single mother, is unable to control the aberrant behavior. These children having children then want "the system" to fix a situation that has been fermenting for years, but now the child is a teenager with no fear of or respect for anything, least of all the system.
I, for one, think White should be consulted when the Oxnard leadership gets together again to figure out why yet another child has died.
-- Lynne Brady, Camarillo