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Dear Sir,

We as a people, all races, must work together to instill in our families the best moral conduct so we can function within the community.

Our children learn moral conduct and intelligence in the family community first.

The outer community has its influences on the development of a child too. If people in the neighbourhood see evil and keep quiet, this conduct will be learned by the child. They learn evil can prevail and that no one will address it.

If the moral conduct they learn at home and in their neighbourhood is bad, teachers will encounter a troublesome student.

The school will try to teach the child the moral conduct he or she should have been taught at home. But once school is finished, the child returns to their normal environment, which can erase all they learned.

As this child grows, their moral conduct and intelligence gravitates towards what is considered bad in mainstream society. He or she will hang with children who curse, whose parents use drugs, who are alcoholics and so on.

As the child becomes an adult, their moral conduct pushes them in the direction as to how they are going to make money, eat and live - drugs.

It's easy for them to start dealing. It gives them a false sense of authority by having others come to them for substance. It empowers them and provides the things they want - things every other hard-working person strives to get.

Not only do they sell drugs, they use them as well to take away the sting of the reality they are in.

Their life is not what it should be. They behave like animals - young men have sex with as many women as possible, babies are popping up all over and women are taking drug money to buy the latest fashions.

Just like animals they are territorial creatures fighting to establish and claim their territory.

But we are not animals. We cannot control what goes on in people's houses but we can make sure that whatever unmoral and unintelligent conduct that is practiced in a bad home does not manifest itself in our neighbourhoods.

Children should see that people care and want the best for their country.

Nashid Shakir, Southampton

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