Dietrich v. Anderson

This case involves the custody of a child, Sandra Anne Anderson, whose parents were but seventeen years old when she was born (August 19, 1989), and were married while high school pupils in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Being totally unprepared for the duties and obligations of parenthood, the young father (the appellee here), who chose not to be diverted from his career as a student but continued on in that role from high school to college, soon found himself without wife or child. They separated in May, 1940, at Kingsport, Tennessee, the mother and infant leaving, without the father’s knowledge,…