Word: unfit
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...business. That was the situation with Sharon Bottoms, a birth mother who lost custody of her five-year-old son Tyler in a high-profile 1996 case. A Virginia court ruled that a nonparent--Sharon's mother--should raise Tyler because Sharon's lesbian lifestyle made her unfit...
...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...
...grandparents of two little girls against their mother and stepfather. The case hinges on the constitutionality of a Washington State law allowing any adult to petition family courts for visitation rights. Unlike most states, which can order parents to allow such visits only in cases where the parents are unfit or abusive, in Washington the law is unusually broad, allowing petitions even when the parents have done nothing wrong...
General Augusto Pinochet looks set to regain his freedom, but not necessarily his dignity. Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw announced Tuesday that a panel of doctors had found the 84-year-old former Chilean dictator medically unfit to stand trial, which leaves Britain inclined to end extradition proceedings and send Pinochet home. Straw has given Spain, which wants to extradite the general to stand trial on charges of torture arising out of the deaths of some of the 3,000 political opponents slain during his 16-year reign, until Tuesday to persuade him otherwise, but has made clear that...