SIR - A girl of 17 was denied education, a career, the right to fall in love and marry a man of her choice. She was denied the right to life.
Now Ann Cryer urges parents to arrange their children's marriages with partners already settled in Britain. I have a much more radical idea - let them choose for themselves!
It is indecent for parents to dictate with whom their children have an intimate physical relationship without love and affection, just duty.
They never know the joy I felt when I chose my wife and she chose me of our own free will.
That was the custom in Bradford 45 years ago, when we had more human rights than some young people enjoy today.
L A Hobsbaum, Willow Crescent, Bradford
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