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I will quote from a letter to the paper, entitled "Price of progress", in which a parent describes how, 20 years ago, their son complained of abdominal pain, which turned out to be a twisted intestine—within 20 minutes, the son had been operated on.
I like its current poster, which has a smug little boy and a disgruntled little girl with the caption, "Prepare your daughter for adult life—give her less pocket money than your son."Some of the data about views and attitudes are fascinating.
I suffered because of the transport problems in West Lothian when I had to get to antenatal classes before the birth of my son at St John's, so I recognise those public transport difficulties.
Bha molaidhean ann gum b; urrainn an dòigh-obrach seo a bhith dualtach sgaraidhean adhbharachadh, gum b’ urrainn dha a bhith doirbh son riarachadh grantaichean is nan deigheadh loidhne a chur air mapa gum biodh e doirbh aonta a ruighinn air slatan-tomhais a’ cho-dhùnaidh.
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We hear regularly how young LBGT kids take their own lives as they don't understand their sexuality and their friends don't understand them either. My son's school told him he would go to hell.
We heard about the family from Ellon who had to remortgage their house to get £3,000 for private orthodontic treatment for their 13-year-old son. Their son had been on the local waiting list for orthodontic treatment since he was nine.
In Bearsden, a leafy suburb, we have a single parent with two children who has been on a waiting list for nine years. The teenage son is fed up with moving around and not having a home, and he is beginning to go off the rails.
However, as the report says, perhaps there is a problem in how parents talk to their children and how men and women relate differently to their sons and daughters.I would like to hear more about the McCabe report's recommendations on parental education.