Why parents must be competent

With reference to: "So many babies without fathers are a burden," How Others See It, on 7 September.

There are too many people, regardless of gender, who hold a misplaced yet strong sense of entitlement when it comes to having children.

But, as a moral rule, a mentally as well as physically sound future should be every child's foremost fundamental right - along with air, water, food and shelter - especially considering the very troubled world into which they never asked to enter.

This is a world in which child abuse prevention month (every April) clearly needs to run 365 days of the year.