LETTERS Baby blues
From Mrs Davina Fernyhough Sir: While I agree with many of Alice Thomson's sentiments in 'New Labour's war against the childless' (20 May), I should like to respond to the implied criticism against exclusive supermarket parking for mothers and babies.
In not too many days' time Alice Thom- son will discover how difficult it is to remove and replace a baby's car-seat when the door can be opened no further than the 12 inches often allowed in a standard park- ing bay; she may even find it distressing to leave her baby screaming in a trolley while she reverses, in order that said door can be opened wide enough to instal her baby safe- ly inside the car. A few supermarket trips later she may realise how few mother-and- baby spaces there are compared with those provided (quite rightly) for the disabled. When the Thomsons' weekly supermarket bill for family necessities (forget the luxu- ries) invariably exceeds £100, she will realise whom the supermarkets need to value in order to safeguard their profit margins.
Davina Fernyhough
London SW18
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