Madam, - A letter in your edition of October 4th appeared to represent viewpoints belonging to or developed in the Children's Research Centre.
Nobody here is authorised to express any views, particularly personal views, that purport to represent, come from, or might be construed as somehow being associated with or resulting from any work that is carried out in or from The Children's Research Centre.
This centre has done no research or investigative work of any kind on this or any related topic.
The letter seemed to indicate that work of that nature has been carried out here and that hypotheses have been formed or conclusions arrived at relating to children and marriage. It may have seemed to have credibility because our address was printed below the authors' names. Moreover, it issued a challenge on a subject of great controversy that could be interpreted as issuing from the Children's Research Centre.
We have never discussed this subject and we certainly have no "corporate" view on it. The first author is a PhD student doing some work here, the second is unknown to us. Neither has any authority to use the centre's name in conjunction with any views on any subject. - Yours, etc,
DAVID E. DORAN, Chief Executive, Prof PREM PURI, Director of Research, The Children's Research Centre Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12.