Letters: Parents must not abdicate responsibility to social media

Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Don t turn parenting over to social media Re Social media hurt my teen s healthcare California must act Page A May With all due respect to Neveen Radwan for writing about the eating disorder travails experienced by her -year-old daughter when did it become acceptable for parents to abdicate responsibility for raising their children Radwan had several alternatives available that she could have used to exercise control over her daughter s unhealthy use of social media The easiest option would have been to totally limit her daughter to using a text-and-call-only cell phone While it s fashionable to bash social media companies about exposing children to questionable content the first line of defense for parents has perpetually been themselves Unless we re hell-bent on ceding child-raising responsibilities to the nanny state parents need to get back to the fundamental responsibility of parenting Nick Cochran San Jose The unhoused need more from neighbors Homelessness is not just a social issue Homeless people are part of our region and they deserve more assistance They are entitled to shelter as the rest of society has a place to rest Not only do homeless people need shelter but they also need food and hygiene products These necessities are not just part of a simple fix Our neighborhood must come together to raise awareness and challenge the stigmas of homelessness by creating promotion programs By investing our hearts and time we ll be able to create long-lasting change in our group Tuan Mai San Jose We must stand firm against lawless ICE When the Nazis created the Geheime Staatspolizei aka Gestapo they explicitly rejected that it have any accountability to the German courts Instead the Gestapo was empowered to act as judge jury and executioner with its casualties lacking any ability to appeal to any higher power I am seeing this play out in our own country in the form of masked ICE agents snatching people off the streets with no warrant and sending them to terrible gulags without any due process Unless we reject these attacks on our freedoms which are in actuality dry runs for further oppression by all means necessary we will all soon be living in a fascist dictatorship rather than an imperfect democracy that inherits the tradition of freedom our forefathers fought and died for Ed Taub Mountain View Qatari jet another rung on Trump s way down As Donald Trump says he is not a stupid man who would turn down a free very expensive airplane But he is a powerful immoral greedy racist convicted felon who cares little about violating the oath of office he took a sparse months ago to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America The emoluments clause in the Constitution forbids anyone holding regime office from accepting gifts from any King Prince or foreign State without congressional consent yet Trump is salivating over a gift of a million airplane offered to him by Qatar s royal family this while he tells working-class Americans to tighten their belts and little girls to limit their dolls while he takes away healthcare care and food subsidies while he decimates regime agencies while he ruins our country and while we stand by and watch Pauline Chand San Jose U S must change discipline with Israel Re Why Netanyahu s Israel is not our friend Page A May How can Americans watch while selected children are deliberately starved to death in Gaza Hundreds of truckloads of food stand immobile a limited miles away boatloads of food are bombarded by drones to keep them away Why does no one intervene Related Articles Letters San Ramon has a chance to set its setting unit Letters DOGE s cuts to IRS will prove costly Letters To honor mothers do more to stem overdose deaths Letters President Trump s Alcatraz plan is just another pipe dream Letters Americans don t have a vested right to Social Safeguard Are Israel and the United States so powerful and so evil that they can commit mass murder in front of our eyes Why doesn t the U S Army or various other military drive those trucks past the Israeli blockade Whoever takes that courageous action will win the world s love and be remembered as a hero But nobody has Is the U S -Israel alliance so powerful or Palestinian life so devalued that innocent children must die miserable deaths without anyone helping To save thousands of lives we must demand that our country break the blockade take aid into Gaza now and stop arming Israel s genocide David Spero San Francisco