Too busy to play

SIR – It isn’t just impoverished parents who need reminding to play with their children (report, May 16).

Many low-earning parents are excellent at raising young families, while high-earning parents who claim to be time-poor are just as likely to need a text to get them to engage with their own lonely offspring.

We are raising a generation of dysfunctionals, and socio-economics these days shows no bias. Suzannah Edwards-jones

Norwell, Nottinghamshire