TOWNSEND, Judge.
1. "If the father can not properly provide for his child at the place where the mother lives, or if she should keep it at some other place, or if he desires the personal care of the child, he may himself obtain the custody of the child (if he be a more suitable person to be entrusted with its custody than its mother), but the child must be supported by its father, whether its mother has its custody or not. It is true that the abandonment which is...
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