Word: offing
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Baby T, who will be four next month, was born with cocaine in his blood. His birth mother, Tina Olison, is a single mother with a 20-year history of drug abuse. Eight days after his birth, he was placed in foster care with Edward Burke, a powerful Democratic alderman...
Then the fighting began. Olison campaigned to get her son back, appealing to the courts' tradition of favoring birth parents in custody cases. But her more explosive claim was that the Burkes, who had baptized Baby T as a Roman Catholic, were not suitable parents for an African-American child...
The judge hearing the case didn't buy it. What mattered, he held, was the parental ties that had formed between the Burkes and Baby T over nearly four years. The court increased the number of visitation hours Olison got, but it made clear that neither a frustrated birth mother...
The U.S. Supreme Court this week will hear a similarly heartrending family conflict. Jenifer and Gary Troxel, whose son Brad committed suicide in 1993, wanted increased visitation rights with their two granddaughters. When the Troxels couldn't agree with the girls' mother, Tommie Granville, on the details, they sued, under...
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