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Supreme Court Rullings
Parham v. J.R., 442 U.S. 584 (1979)
"That some parents may at times be
acting against the interests of their
children, as was stated in Bartley v. Kremen, creates a basis for caution,
but
is hardly a reason to discard wholesale those pages of human experience
that teach that parents generally do act in the
child's best interests. The
statist notion that governmental power should supersede parental authority in
all cases
because some parents abuse and neglect children is repugnant to
American tradition."
Troxel v. Granville, 530
U.S. 57 (2000)
"[T]here is a presumption that fit parents act in the best interests of their
children."
"Accordingly,
so long as a parent adequately cares for his or her children (
i.e., is fit), there will normally be no reason for the
State to inject
itself into the private realm of the family to further question the ability
of that parent to make
the best decisions concerning the rearing of that
parents children."
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