John Craven's assessment of the overcrowding at York District Hospital is correct (January 22). But the core of his solution - shortage of nursing homes - is wrong.
Successive governments have undermined family life to the point where the state has assumed responsibility for every aspect of our lives and, inevitably, failed to deliver.
When the medical professionals have done their job, the place to go is home to our families. If this is not possible a nursing home is a poor alternative.
Marriage is about families and commitment to each other for life, no matter what. With all its frailties, the recognition of this commitment has been at the core of our social system and has been shown to work for centuries. Absence of this recognition is undermining us all.
Neil Dobson,
The Nookin,
Husthwaite, York.
Updated: 10:43 Tuesday, January 29, 2002
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