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| It's no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with their birth parents. That's especially__1__of children who remain in homes where they're badly treated because the law blindly favors biological parents. It's also true of children who __2__ for years in foster (寄养) homes because of parents who can't or won't care for them but refuse to give up custody (监护) rights. Fourteenyearold Kimberly Mays __3__ neither description, but her recent court victory could __4__ help children who do. Kimberly has been the __5__ of an angry custody battle between the man who raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived. A Florida judge __6__ that the teenager can remain with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal __7__" on her. Shortly after__8__ in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched and sent home with the __9__ parents. Kimberly's biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests __10__ that the child wasn't the Twiggs' own daughter, but Kim only was, thus leading to a custody __11__ with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families __12__ that Mr Mays would maintain custody with the Twiggs getting visiting rights. Those rights were ended when Mr Mays decided that Kimberly was being __13__. The decision to __14__ Kimberly with Mr Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made clear that Kimberly did have the right to sue (起诉) on her own behalf. Thus he made it clear that she was more than just a personal possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels(取消) all the __15__ of children. | ||||
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