Wayne County Department of Social Services v. Schultz

William Schultz, Jr., will be 17 years of age on June 12, 1975. He has spent most of his life in and out of various foster homes, with little attention from his father, and none from his mother. He has an older brother and three older sisters, who were similarly pretty much farmed out. His father was married for the third time in July, 1972, to a woman 10 years his junior, and for a while William lived with the new family unit.

This group consisted of his father, his new stepmother, a stepbrother aged 12, and a stepsister aged 8. William shared a room with the stepbrother, who would not leave…