We have problems with shootings, bombs, broken homes, divorce, etc. We have to get to the bottom of this.

First and foremost, it all starts with our family.

Everyone is so busy working two and three jobs, fighting traffic going home, all stressed out. Who is suffering from all this? Our children.

We all put our children in the back seat because we’re too busy paying high taxes, bills, insurance, and such, so who gets neglected but our little ones.

Instead, come home to your family, have supper together, help them do their homework, then make sure they have enough sleep. No, all they want to do is raise taxes and will legalize marijuana sooner or later with alcohol. It’s our kids who are being neglected — for what? So we can work and pay for others to get free college and free health care?

Charity begins at home. The family is paying too much to have someone watch them who don’t care a thing about your kids; they’re there for the money.

If they could find a way for one of the household, mother or father, to get so much a month for their children so one of them could do that. And help our kids be happy again and know the difference between right and wrong and know how much they need you.

I think that would solve a lot of problems instead of shouting at each other over the remote.

Someone should come out with a better idea because our kids are suffering and are neglected. We can’t blame the parents — they’re doing all they can, but it’s not working. It’s going to get worse, not better. Guns are not the answer.

Emelene Leinert

Danbury