DAY-CARE USING MOM LOSES DAUGHTER IN COURT

Women's groups were furious at a Michigan judge's decision to take away a woman's three-year-old daughter because she had placed the child in day care while attending college. Circuit Court Judge Raymond Cashen awarded custody of the toddler, Maranda, to her father, arguing that "strangers" would care for her at a day-care center while mother Jennifer Ireland, 19, attends the University of Michigan. The child will spend days in her new home with her paternal grandmother while dad works. TIME Midwest correspondent Wendy Cole says the judge's language reflects the rhetoric of the religious right's growing attacks on day care as "antifamily."