SOMEONE needs to tell Liz Jones (Mail) that nature ordained that women should bear the brunt of providing for the next generation. To do this successfully, you need the commitment of a male and a female and, in an ideal world, these two would marry so one could earn a living while the other raises socially responsible children.

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We are put on this world to procreate and thus ensure the survival of the human race. When Liz grows old, she will be dependent on those children she so despises — and whose welfare she so resents having to help pay for — to be her doctor, nurse, butcher, baker and plumber.

No one will be the least interested in her designer shoes, handbags and clothes. It is sad that she has realised her predicament too  59fifty late in life. So many women who are choosing her lifestyle are generally of high intelligence and would, no doubt, produce intelligent offspring. Quite frankly, our country needs such a future generation.

PATRICIA GOWERS, Kingston-upon-Thames, London SW20.

LIZ JONES’S article (Mail) rings absolutely true with me. Women who are childless and over 50 like her, and me, are not cold, selfish or barren, as some modern mothers would perceive us to be. My husband and I have both been married once before. We met in our 30s, and he already had two children. Being responsible for them when they came to stay with us gave me a big insight into what being a parent was really like.

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We all got on well, but as time went on I realised any maternal feelings I was supposed to have had not materialised.

When my stepchildren were older and independent, my husband and I knew we didn’t want any more children. Women like me are not a minority — only one of my friends has had children and she is a grandmother at 51. But she has moved 260 miles to the other side of the country to get ‘some peace’.

Like Liz Jones, I have love to give, but it doesn’t involve me having a baby.

KRYSTINE AMER, address supplied.