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Sharon Bottoms, 23, lives with her partner, 27-year-old April Wade. Kay Bottoms, 42, con tends that fact makes her daughter unfit to be a mother. "The question is whether a parent should be disqualified because of sexual orientation or lifestyle," said Donald Butler, Sharon Bot toms' lawyer. A different answer to the question Butler posed comes from Anne Kincaid, spokes woman for the Family Foundation, a conserva tive Virginia group that says it has 30,000 members. "Is it discrimination based on sexual orien tation or is it child protection based on the mother's sexual behavior?" she said. "It's important to note the difference be tween sexual orientation and sexual behav ior," Kincaid added. Kay Bottoms' lawyer, Richard Ryder, did not return a reporter's repeated phone calls. However, he told the Richmond Times- Dispatch in an interview last May that "the lesbian relationship is detrimental to the child and will get more so in the future." Kent Willis, executive director of the Amer ican Civil Liberties Union in Virginia, dis agreed. "There is ample evidence that gays and les bians make good parents," he said. Inhalants on the rise among teens, study shows The Associated Press ENGLEWOOD, Colo.- When Ryan Link came home after a night out with his friends, it wasn't smoke or alcohol his par ents smelled on his breath — it was gasoline. Ryan, 17, was a "buffer" — someone who inhales fumes from gasoline, hair spray, butane, or any number of household prod ucts to get a cheap high. When Ryan's parents sought help, their minister advised them to "make light of" their son's sub stance abuse. The family doctor and the high school counselor didn't know how to handle Ryan's problem. 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