Patti Davis Needs to Grow Up--a Lot

Re “The Way Patti Sees It” (April 30): Patti (Reagan) Davis ought to grow up and open her eyes. Only then would she be able to recognize that all children, no matter how good or how bad their families were, must somehow overcome their childhood and forgive their parents.

What Patti Davis fails to recognize is that her struggle for self is a struggle we all must make. She has disregarded discovering who she is and is constantly reminding us how she is inexplicably riding on her famous parents’ coattails and is quite content to stay there. She is much more comfortable crying about the alleged wrongs in her privileged life than in struggling to overcome them.

JANNA KAY NEWSOM

Whittier