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FRIDAY,SEPT.7,2001
Iowa denies grandparents visitation
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously struck down a law yesterday that gave grandparents the right to spend time with their grandchildren, ruling that it interfered with parental rights.
The court said the law substituted "sentimentality for constitutionality."
"It exalts the socially desirable goal of grandparent-grandchild bonding over the constitutionally recognized right of parents to decide with whom their children will associate," the court said.
Short of a decision that parents were unfit and incapable of making a decision about who should
visit their child, neither courts nor the Legislature can interfere with such intimate family decisions,the court said.
Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision limiting states' power in helping grandparents and others with close ties to children win the right to see them regularly against parents' wishes.
The ruling stopped short of giving parents absolute veto power, leaving unanswered many questions state courts face daily in visitation battles.
In the Iowa case, grandparents Joe and Lois Santi argued that allowing visits to granddaughter Taylor "serves to strengthen extended family bonds in an era plagued by social ills such as
divorce, drug use and teen pregnancy."
The parents, Mike Santi and his wife, Heather, said forcing visitation against their objection was unlikely to promote family unity.
The case sketched the gradual breakdown of the Des Moines family, including clashes about how much fast food the child should be allowed during visits to her grandparents and whether she should have been taken to see Santa Claus without her parents' permission.
The Iowa justices said courts in some states had allowed grandparent visitation laws to stand after finding they amounted to "minimal intrusion" on parental rights.
The Associated Press
Cartoonist apologizes for citing bogus Web site about president
PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA —
Doonesbury creator Garry
Trudeau has apologized—sort of
Trudeau has apologized — sort of — for a Sunday strip that cited an Internet hoax that said George W. Bush had the lowest IQ of any president in the last 50 years.
In the "study," Bush was said to have an IQ half that of Bill Clinton and a little more than half the average presidential vocabulary.
The strip depicted a conversation between an unseen Bush and an adviser in the White House. It cited a made-up ranking of presidential IQs based on public statements and writings.
The Doonesbury Web site acknowledged that the ranking was an Internet hoax and said that citing it was "a regrettable error, although perhaps inevitable, given that this feature uses the same fact-checking house as Saturday Night Live and The Drudge Report.
"Thetrudeau takes full responsibility, acknowledging the use of fictional material from an outside source instead of simply making it up as he usually does," the site says. "The creator deeply apologizes for unsettling anyone who was under the impression that the president is, in fact, quite intelligent."
Universal Press Syndicate senior editor Alan McDermott said Trudeau told editors in an e-mail that a "usually reliable" source had pointed out the purported study to him.
The fake study quotes the Lovenstein Institute of Scranton, Pa., and cites several so-called world-renowned authorities using something called the Swanson/Crain system of intelligence ranking. No such institute is listed in the Scranton phone book, and researchers have said they have never heard of the research system or the authorities cited.
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