United States Acting Mass. Gov. Jane Swift admitted yesterday that she and her husband falsified their marriage certificate in 1994. The experience of several towns in Pennsylvania demonstrates that curfews for youths, which are popular with many officials, are difficult to write so that they pass constitutional muster, and are generally ignored by the people to whom they apply. Male justices supported the ban, while the women dissented. A British woman acting as a surrogate mother for a Californian couple has gone to court accusing them of trying to change the terms of their agreement after they discovered she was having twins. The couple asked her to abort oneof the fetuses.
Opponents consider the bill to be an attack upon the traditional family.
As nurses reportedly wept, an Oregon mom whose parental rights have been terminated was forced to deliver her 5th child while handcuffed to a bed. The action is part of an ongoing, precedent-setting parental rights case in the state. An Alberta father ordered to pay his adult daughter's way through college is challenging the judge's ruling and the law on which it is based. The German company Papacheck is offering a quick and easy mail-order paternity test that can be carried out in secret by either parent without the other's knowledge. The test, which can be carried out on a few strands of hair, has been in hot demand since advertising for it began on the internet.