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...daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asked, "What for you is complete happiness on earth?" The sensual, said Swiss writer Hans A. Pestalozzi: "Sex with a woman one loves under the smoldering heat of the sun." The mundane, said theater critic Georg Hensel: "Sole fried in butter." And former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt declared definitively, "There's no such thing...
...will start filming its version of the Baby Jessica story this week in cooperation with her custodial parents, Jan and Roberta DeBoer, but without consulting her biological mother and father, Dan and Cara Schmidt. The Schmidts, who won custody, have thus far turned down all offers for their story. They say, however, that they may make a public response to the ABC broadcast...
...Iowa court declared that it could not and should not pay attention to the best interests of the child, that the only issue at hand in this case was the father. The Michigan Supreme Court deferred to Iowa's decision. Only if Daniel Schmidt was found to be unfit as a parent could the courts consider the rights of the little girl. This approach has made adoption advocates draw back in fury. "When you're dealing with a child who has had a 2 1/2-year relationship with a set of de facto parents," says Harvard law professor Elizabeth Bartholet, author...
...living as a bohemian in California. States everywhere reacted by writing laws to clarify paternal rights -- and Iowa wrote one declaring that biological parents have custodial rights unless a child has been abandoned. Only then are "the best interests of the child" considered. That meant that Daniel Schmidt, who never abandoned Jessica, had custodial rights, period. The Schmidts couldn't lose in Iowa, and when the DeBoers took the case to Michigan, they couldn...
...weeks ago, Cara Schmidt gave birth to a second daughter, Chloe, at the same Cedar Rapids hospital where Jessica was born. She and Dan are looking for a bigger house. On the door of their small corner white frame home in Blairstown, a sign with carefully drawn hearts announces WELCOME HOME BABY SCHMIDT. When Jessica joins them, she will have a new name -- Anna Lee Jacqueline Clausen Schmidt...