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· 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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