024to the editor- teenager

posted by ellie on August 21st, 2007

To the Editor,

I am writing to comment on your article ‘Kerryn’s anguish over family split.’ I was surprised but impressed with Kerryn’s story, as it helped me to understand many different things.

This article really grabbed my attention! I normally steer clear from articles of this sort, but as I read on, I realised how much it related to me. I myself am an eighteen year old female, the same age as Kerryn’s daughter, so naturally I felt that I understood the trials and anguish she must have been through.

I could completely identify with the fighting with your parents. Sometimes they just don’t understand. I have been at that same point, right on the edge of leaving for good. This article made me realise how easy it is to just give up. It held fast for me the fact that I had done the right thing in working through my problems and staying with my family. In this way, it was both interesting and useful to learn about this kind of family breakup.

This article was so full of issues that teenagers of today will more than likely have to face later on in life if they haven’t already had to. These include IVF, gay marriages, family breakups with divorces and so on.

Upon reading this article I recognised the possibility that either having a gay parent or being gay yourself wouldn’t actually be that bad. Kerryn’s son, Carl showed this. In my eyes, he is a strong and admirable guy, who seems to stand for what he believes, and stay loyal to his family.

I was sad to learn that there was no reconciliation between Kerryn and her daughter, but then I reminded myself that we are not, in fact, living in a fairytale world and many things don’t pan out the way we want.

I would again like to thank you for the article, it has shown me both the error of my ways and has laid a faint path for me to follow in my passage to adulthood.

Bellatrix Lestrange

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