Dr. Laura,

I work for the City of New York as a police officer. I patrol in some of the worst areas in the Bronx. A few times a week, I am faced with a young woman who is playing the victim for why her life turned out the way it has when she is the one who chose a bad man. Two nights ago, I went to a scene where a 16-year-old girl had run away from home to live with her 18-year-old drop out, no job bum of a boyfriend who was living with his mom. When she told me her mom was a struggling single parent and her dad was not in the picture, I told her she was looking at her future. I gave her a little Dr. Laura medicine and sent her back home.

I have listened to you for five years and have spent the last three being a spokesperson for you to these trouble ridden people. It hurts when some of them do not listen, but you have made me a smart woman. I grew up with a feminist alcoholic mother and wouldn't have even known where to start giving people advice. You have taught me right and wrong. You are like a mother to me!  You have made me a really strong cop and I always try to "do the right thing".

Hannah

P.S. If I ever get married and want children, I will retire early. I won't be shipping my children off to a day care!