Beyond the Best Interests of a Child: Bone Marrow Transplantation among Half-Siblings

Among the most sensitive tasks of our courts of law is dealing with disputes among parents over the best interests of children. 1 The Illinois Supreme Court was recently faced with an unusual case in which one of the parties to such a dispute was a father attempting to save the life of a child critically ill with leukemia. 2 The sick child was Jean Pierre, 12 years of age. He had been living with his father, Tamas Bosze, in Colombia, where his illness was misdiagnosed. A few months later, the boy and the father returned to the United States, and another . . .