· 9/22/1980
Bezio v. Patenaude
Citations
- 410 N.E.2d 1207
- 381 Mass. 563
- 1980 Mass. LEXIS 1303
How courts have described this case
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- “Neither the ‘parental fitness’ test nor the ‘best interests of the child’ test is properly applied to the exclusion of the other”
- no evidence that children raised with loving couple of same sex are any more disturbed, unhealthy, or maladjusted than children raised with loving couple of mixed sex
- psychologist testimony that mixed sexual orientation of parents irrelevant to child's mental health
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Judges: Abrams, Hennessey, Kaplan, Liacos, Quirico, Wilkins
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