Amy Schalet asks us to compare American “cultural ideas” and those prevalent in the Netherlands when determining a parental response to teenage sexual activity “under my roof.” While her discussion hinges on sexual mores, I recall seeing the social destruction wrought by the infamous Needle Park in Amsterdam and its storefront red light district as other examples of the Dutch model of “divergent cultural ideas.”
Different ideas are not always better ideas.
JAMES M. BOLING
Richland, Ga., July 28, 2011
