From what is otherwise a pretty standard "best interests of the child" analysis in a child custody case, Foster v. Waterman, 2007 WL 2119125 (Iowa App. July 25):So a white mom get custody of a 7-year-old quarter-Korean girl in part by promising to enroll her in a martial arts class!Harold argues that Anjela is a child of one-fourth of Korean heritage and it is important for her to be allowed maximum involvement with her heritage.Seems to me that courts have no business deciding, whether in a child custody case or elsewhere, how much and what sort of a connection a child should have "with her ethnic heritage." ... And it's just zany for a court to view a parent's willingness to enroll the quarter-Korean child in a martial arts class as remotely relevant to the child's best interests.
Volokh doesn't do family court cases, or he might be outraged by how all the other child custody cases are decided as well.
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