Student-Athlete-Father Is Too Much to Handle

What is the point of Julie Cart’s article, “A Long and Winding Road” (Nov. 13)? Are readers supposed to feel sorry that Richard Maddox’s sexually indulgent lifestyle has encumbered him with numerous children at a time most college students realize it is necessary to establish one’s career before bringing lifelong responsibilities into the world?

Producing a child a year takes no special talent. Perhaps society should be glad that Maddox hasn’t dumped his responsibilities onto welfare, but neither is his career established.

A.D. ELIASON, Santa Barbara