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Article: Visitation rights rulings emphasize nurture over nature.
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- The Boston Herald
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- July 1, 1999
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Perhaps what we're seeing here is a trend.
Last week the state's Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a Georgia man must allow his pre-teen daughter to visit the aunt who took care of her for most of her life. The ruling was unusual because the court, citing the girl's best interests, awarded visitation rights to someone who was not a parent.
Then, this week the SJC ruled that a lesbian who helped raise her former partner's son should be awarded visitation rights, too.
Citing, again, the 4-year-old's best interests, Justice Ruth Abrams argued that children of gay couples, like children of any couple, "form parental relationships with both parents, ...