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Brooklyn: There are many wonderful things about being a new parent. Finding and paying for child care in New York City, however, is not one of them. Now, instead of using the city’s collective resources to help working parents, Mayor Adams’ recently released budget proposal declares an all-out war on families, with cuts to early childhood programs, public schools and libraries.
Manhattan: Voicer William Cook ridicules the current kerfuffle about Roe v. Wade, concluding that allowing the voters of each state to decide abortion policy “is what our Constitution demands.” If that were true, the Supreme Court of the United States would not have granted certiorari re a Mississippi statute, neither a referendum nor constitutional amendment.
Trenton, N.J.: I am writing in response to the commentary “The conundrum of child kinship care” (op-ed, Dec. 13) and false assertions made regarding New Jersey’s child welfare system. The author, Naomi Schaefer Riley, suggested that the state was engaged in a campaign to divert children from entering the foster care system by placing them in informal, unlicensed homes with extended family members, a “shadow child welfare system.”