Debating Parenting Styles While Ukraine Burns and Childen Die — Letters that should have been in the new york times

3.11.22

Sir:

As we helplessly watch the carnage in the Ukraine as parents struggle to spare children from death, escape and comfort them in subway bomb shelters, or trek thousands of miles in the freezing cold with a stuffed animal and one suitcase, I ponder the narcissism we are free to indulge in to debate parenting styles. This is surely a luxury of first world problems, and out of sync not only in the Ukraine nightmare, but even here for our parents mired in poverty .

Sue Matorin
Social Work Faculty
Dept of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell