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MONTGOMERY COUNTY v. SANDERS

No. 943, September Term, 1977.

38 Md. App. 406 (1978)

381 A.2d 1154

MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, ET AL. v. REBECCA SANDERS.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 10, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam J. Wojciak, Jr., Assistant County Attorney, with whom was Richard S. McKernon, County Attorney for Montgomery County, on the brief, for appellant Montgomery County, Maryland. William G. Simmons for appellant Edwin Owen Sanders, Jr. Gilbert E. Tietz for other appellant.

Mark Colvin and George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defenders, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before GILBERT, C.J., and MENCHINE and LOWE, JJ.

GILBERT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The United Nations Declaration states that "[m]ankind owes to a child the best it has to give." Very few persons will quarrel with the tenor of that assertion. What gives rise to controversy is not the general proposition of mankind's obligation to provide what is best for the child, but rather, what is best. The theoretical best mankind can provide is not always the best that society, through its courts, can implement...

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