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Big win for men as judge says they can be granted custody of infants

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Court says tender years doctrine be explicitly subjected to the best interests of child. [iStockphoto]

Men can take care of infants just like women and should get custody if the best interest of the child will be met by a father, the High Court has ruled.

The judgment now unsettles the tender years doctrine. Justice Lawrence Mugambi overturned a magistrate's court order requiring a man to hand his son over to his ex-wife after finding that he had taken care of the boy from the age of two years.

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