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The Battalion
Tuesday, September 7,1993
Lesbian battles court for child custody
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Gay rights advocates
are closely watching a potential landmark case
in Virginia, where a judge this week will con
sider whether a woman may retain custody of
her lesbian daughter's 2-year-old son.
It ia highly unusual custody battle because
it pits a nonparent against a mother whose
only alleged parental shortcoming has been
her sexual relationship.
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.
Parents and educators often
dismiss the dangers of huffing,
despite its prevalence, its increas
ing popularity among teens and
its potential deadliness, said
Catherine MacIntyre, the director
of the International Institute for
Inhalant Abuse in Englewood.
Nearly one-fifth of American
high school seniors have tried to
get high from some kind of in
halant, according to a 1991 study
by the National Institute on Drug
Abuse.
Inhalants rank fourth in popu
larity among schoolchildren, be-
ity among
hind alcohol, tobacco and mari
juana ahead Of Colorado eighth-
graders, 21 percent reported using
inhalants at least once, according
to a survey.
Inhalant institute officials say
huffing is attractive to juveniles
because it is cheap and the prod
ucts themselves are legal.
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