Unfair attack on Madonna

Re “Madonna’s choice,” Current, Oct. 22

I have to respond to Karen Stabiner’s cruel attack on Madonna for adopting David Banda. At 72 years, the mother of five and the grandmother of 10, I am not in the cohort of Madonna’s fans. Yet I protest the meanness of the essay.

No matter how a child comes into a family, the child brings joy but also sleepless nights that do not end when infancy passes. It will be Madonna who lies awake at night when David Banda is 18, wondering if he wrecked the car, if he dropped out of school without telling her and a jillion other mother nightmares!

Get off your limping moral high horse, Stabiner, and go act selflessly yourself. How about opening up and adopting a child?

LACRETA SCOTT

Altadena