Deepika Singh vs. Central Administrative Tribunal and others A recent Indian Supreme Court ruling has acknowledged the existence of nontraditional partnerships, including same-sex parents, stepparents, single parents, and adoptive parents, and grants such parents equal protection and social benefits under the law. Previously, the law failed to recognize nontraditional families’ entitlement to parental rights and […]
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Overprotective Parents and a New Generation of American Children
The beginning of the year 2014 was marked by a peculiar event. In an appellate court decision, a mother was found guilty of abuse and neglect for leaving her toddler in the car while she went into a store for five to ten minutes. Although the toddler was deemed to have been in no imminent […]