Here is one more response from the comments posted to the New York Times website, reacting to Chris Gottlieb’s excellent essay on the Times’ “Motherlode” blog . As with a previous guest blog, I’m struck as much by who wrote it as by what is said:
Mississippi prosecutor
Mississippi
August 28th, 2010
12:24 pm
Strangers, however well-meaning, are still strangers to you, your child, your family situation. So, unless and until they walk in your shoes, how can it possibly be appropriate to tell a mother she is reading a newspaper improperly and may damage her baby's eyesight? Collective responsibility (i.e. "it takes a village") is one thing - asinine interference, another thing altogether. As for the judge who ordered the mother to take her child to the park every day, it would be interesting to know how many days, in his entire life, he ever took his own children - to the park or anywhere else.
TOMORROW: MORE ABOUT THE RETREAT FROM REFORM IN NEW YORK CITY, AND HOW ANOTHER POLITICIAN IS MAKING IT WORSE.
TOMORROW: MORE ABOUT THE RETREAT FROM REFORM IN NEW YORK CITY, AND HOW ANOTHER POLITICIAN IS MAKING IT WORSE.