Voices

Writer given free rein to castigate her family

The Commons does a great disservice to its readers by even printing this article.

Having spent my entire adult life in the nursing profession, I am more than aware of the needs, and the lack of accommodations for those needs, of people who are either physically abused or mentally challenged.

And while the article dances around many of these problems, it also, unfortunately, gave my niece, Laura Momaney, free rein to castigate her family with no proof of her accusations other than her version of her life as she feels it has unfolded.

Laura has written about many of the problems in her life that have come from her use of alcohol and drugs. She's not the first and she certainly won't be the last person to experience these problems.

But to place the responsibility for her actions or her downward slide in her life on her mother and, even worse, a father who is not alive to defend himself, is unconscionable, as is The Commons' decision to allow this particular article to be printed.

If you are going to allow people to go on the attack, at least do some background as to who they are and why the war was started.

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