Autumn Toronto Justice Peter Cory of […]

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1977-09 – 1977-11

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Autumn Toronto Justice Peter Cory of the Supreme Court of Ontario made the first reported pronouncement in Ontario on the subject of lesbians and child custody in the case of Wine v. Wine. Justice Cory, in a preliminary statement, said that lesbianism "… could have a detrimental effect upon the children and quite possibly the mother should not have custody."

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