From Peter Inson
Sir: Roger Scruton calls for the safeguarding of the projects of love and of raising children. These projects are necessarily linked.
Increasingly, adults whose own relationships are chaotic, who are struggling with the first project, have also embarked on the second, and it is a commonplace that having a baby is spoken of as a means of saving a relationship. When sex is regarded as a commodity, other people become mere objects through which our own desires can be fulfilled without any further concern for them as people, for it is concern for others that is at the heart of love.
It is difficult to see how anyone so bound up in self that others are as mere objects can manifest the degree of love that is necessary for sustained relationships, especially those involving a new generation.
Roger Scruton should have gone further; raising children is impossible without love.
Peter Inson
Wembley, Middlesex
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