Ex Parte Parker

The majority opinion, without just cause as I see it, violates the mother-right to custody of her infant child. And in awarding the child to other persons the decision appears to be against the young mother on three specific grounds: (1) That she is not skilled in any craft or trained for any profession or employment except keeping house; (2) that the husband is away from home in the army of his country; and (3) that the mother is not financially independent, therefore the court assumes she must labor for subsistence, and while working leave her baby with others to care for.'

Then the decision…