Quilloin v. Walcott, 434 U.S. 246, 98 S.Ct. 549, 54 L.Ed.2d 511 (1978) (“best-interests-of-the-child” standard adequately protected unwed father’s due-process rights where he had never supported or attempted to legitimate the 11-year-old child involved in an adoption proceeding); Parham v. J.R., 442 U.S. 584, 99 S.Ct. 2493, 61 L.Ed.2d 101 (1979) (applying strict scrutiny, the Court held state statute authorizing parents to commit their children to mental institutions without the child’s consent did not deny due process); Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745, 102 S.Ct. 1388, 71 L.Ed.2d 599 (1982) (due process requires that proceedings to terminate parental rights use the “clear-and-convincing” standard of proof); Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702, 117 S.Ct. 2258, 138 L.Ed.2d 772 (1997) (<HOLDING>). Although Meyer, 262 U.S. at 399-400, 43 S.Ct.
recognizing that noncustodial parents have a fundamental liberty interest in the care custody and management of their children holding that prospective adoptive parents do not have a fundamental liberty interest in adoption holding that terminally ill patients do not have a fundamental liberty interest in committing suicide holding that natural parents have a fundamental liberty interest in the care custody and management of their children holding that doctors do not have to accept patients