A child abuse finding can lead to a loss of parental rights.

However, if parents persistently refused to agree to the referral of their child, they could be threatened with the loss of parental rights as of September 1941.

It said that the Board needed to show not only that there was a compelling interest in fighting AIDS, but that the loss of parental rights was essential to the plan.

After a second day of heated discussion, a panel of specialists concluded today that payment to surrogate mothers for bearing a child should be prohibited when it involves a loss of parental rights.

Mr. Chuyev said that in negotiations he had been told only two would remain - rape and the loss of parental rights, which a court usually decides on the grounds of mental illness or drug addiction.

Zelder argues that no-fault divorce was often accompanied by movement toward joint custody instead of exclusive custody by the mother, and that this movement makes it more difficult for a mother to threaten a husband with complete loss of parental rights after a divorce.

In Philadelphia, a panel of the American Bar Association, after laboring with a precise definition of surrogacy, retreated to a safer ground by recommending that surrogacy not involve payment for the loss of parental rights by the surrogate mother and that it not be banned in all cases.