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...trend, however, is for courts to look beyond whether a parent is gay in evaluating parenting claims. Last March a New Jersey appeals court awarded visitation rights to the former partner of a lesbian mother who had helped raise their children. And two years after the Bottoms case, a court in the same Virginia county quietly awarded custody to a lesbian mother over her former husband. A key factor: in the course of the Bottoms' appeals, the Virginia courts dropped their doctrine that gays are necessarily unfit parents...
When should courts give an adult a role in raising a child? Many family-law experts say the first step is deciding who has done the real parenting. Joan Hollinger, visiting professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, says the decision should be made on grounds not of biology but of which adults have developed "significant relationships" with a child. Then, parents should be allowed to raise their children with minimal government intrusion, unless the child is in danger. "When you have someone who's taken on the responsibility of performing as a parent, we really need...
...PADGETT, TIME's Miami bureau chief, has covered Latin America since 1989, but as the parent of a 5-year-old boy, he was particularly intrigued by the international tug-of-war over this week's cover subject, Elian Gonzalez. "It's been painful as a father as well as a journalist to watch Elian have to endure this interruption in his blossoming," says Padgett. With the assistance of stringer Dolly Mascarenas , Padgett interviewed Elian's relatives in Florida and Cuba. "Both families are decent, sincere people who obviously care a lot for Elian," says Padgett. But the INS ruling...
...drive me positively nuts," says Orecklin, who nevertheless perseveres (except on those rare occasions when Jeopardy's siren song proves too strong to ignore). For this week's People page, Orecklin reports on the breakup of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda. Although Turner is vice chairman of Time Warner, [parent of TIME's publisher] and a certified big shot, he'll not be spared Orecklin's sharp needle. "Just to be sure, though, I'd like to take this opportunity to say, 'Good luck...
Your articles on the Columbine tapes of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold should be required reading for every parent and teacher in America. KAREN WILSON Greensboro...