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| It's no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents (养父母) than with the parents that nature dealt them. That's especially 1 of children who remain in homes where they're badly treated 2 the law blindly favors biological parents. It's also true of children who 3 , for years in foster (寄 养) homes because of parents who can't or won't care for them but 4 to give up custody (监护) rights. Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Mays 5 neither description, but her recent court victory could 6 children who do. Kimberly has been the object of an angry custody battle between the man who 7 her and her biological parents, with whom she has never 8 . A Florida judge decided that the teenager can 9 with the only father she's ever known and that her biological parents have "no legal right" on her. Shortly after 10 in December 1978, Kimberly Mays and another baby were mistakenly switched and sent home with the 11 parent. Kimberly's biological parents received a child who died of a heart disease in 1988. Medical tests 12 that the child wasn't their own daughter, but Kimberly was, thus leading to a custody 13 with Robert Mays. In 1989, the two families 14 that Mr. Mays would continue to have custody with the biological parents getting 15 rights. Those rights were ended when Mr. Mays decided that Kimberly was being 16 . The decision to 17 Kimberly with Mr. Mays caused heated discussion. But the judge made 18 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 19 possession of her parents. Biological parentage does not mean an absolute ownership that cancels (取消) all the 20 of children. | ||||
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