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Customary claim that children belong to fathers unjust, says judge

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The High Court has declared as unjust and discriminatory, the customary notion or myth, that children belong to their fathers.

On Wednesday, Justice Heston Nyaga, ruled that the same claim was offensive to justice as it is discriminatory on the part of the mothers.

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