Whether a natural parent has a fundamental liberty interest in the care, custody, and management of her child

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether a natural parent has a fundamental liberty interest, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, in the care, custody, and management of her child, precluding the grant of custody to an individual who is not a parent of the child and has not adopted the child simply because the individual was “there when she was born” and thus “feels” that the child is his daughter. Whether constitutional rights of a parent to make decisions for the child a preclude a court from granting custody to a non-parent over the objection of the natural parent. , Whether, if the concept of de facto parenthood exists— a claim never raised by the Respondent-, the constitutional protections afforded to a biological parent would remain intact, and would require a finding of, among other things, consent to such a relationship by clear and convincing evidence and should result only in visitation and not transfer of custody.