In re the Adoption of Cohen

Wingate, S.

Unquestionably the most difficult and perplexing problems which ever come before a court for decision are those questions which, while involving no financial consideration, have to do with those vitally important but wholly imponderable questions of human relations involving the basic sentiment of mother love. Such a one is the present.

On November 21, 1933, the present respondent gave birth to the child whose adoption is now sought. She was in dire trouble, substantially destitute, and had been abandoned by the father of the child. Four days later she signed and acknowledged a…