Word: unfitness
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...long as no court has found them unfit, only parents--not grand-uncles, cousins or sympathetic strangers--can make decisions on behalf of children, though a child can sometimes initiate the agency investigation that would determine a parent's fitness. The major exception in this area is the right of teenage girls in some states to get an abortion without parental consent. That also happens to be one of the most hotly contested areas of abortion rights, which is why 39 states have passed laws that require a girl to notify or get permission from a parent...
...poor workmanship by manifesting things undreamed of in all our philosophy. So let us seek nature's own replicate--on Mars or a few other potential places in our solar system, if we really luck out (and are willing to content ourselves with simple things at bacterial grade and unfit for mutual conversation); or elsewhere, despite daunting distances (beyond any possibility for two-way conversation during human lifetimes) but promising--in the most exciting and improbable long shot in all human history--a potential insight soaring well beyond our meager powers of imagination...
...that character should not play any part of a decision to elect someone as President, but the types of faults that have been paraded as serious character flaws simply are not. Some drug use in college does not mean that a candidate is unfit to be President. An accidental advertisement on an porn website should not be grounds to question a candidate's moral makeup...
Recently, the British Interior Ministry deemed Pinochet unfit to stand trial, citing numerous health ailments. Claiming patient confidentiality, the Ministry has refused to release the medical records to Belgium and human rights groups who have brought a suit against Pinochet for the torture he ordered during his dictatorship. While putting a sick man on trial is a breach of justice, allowing a second opinion on the diagnosis is only fair...
...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...