Hendry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “While it is true that the adoption law of this state provides that an adoption severs the relationship between the child and the natural parents and considers the adoptive parents to be the parents of that child thenceforth, it is obvious that this is intended to prevent the natural parents from interfering with the family life in the adoptive home .... It of course is impossible to nullify by legislative declaration the fact that the biological parents continue to be blood relatives of the child; the link of consanguinity cannot be erased by enactment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 112 Wash. App. 164 - State v. Hall · State v. Hall

2. “[A]n adoption statute cannot erase lineal consanguinity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hall