The appellant referred to the unreported judgment of Halvorson, J.D.C., (as he then was) in Anderson v. Sullivan, when he said, in dispensing with the natural father’s consent: . . . His rights should be abrogated only for serious reasons. With all respect to the learned judge, the test in determining whether a parent’s consent should be dispensed with is not based upon the primary consideration of a parent’s right but simply upon what is in the best interests of the child.
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