This is one of the few episodes from the early seasons that I have to call a loser. The problem is that the script so *deliberately* drives the story into an unhappy, if not actually tragic ending just for the sake of having such an ending. That both the boy's biological father *and* his maternal grandparents would be so incredibly selfish as to seek to tear him away from the only family he'd ever known already put a strain on credibility, but the family court judge's bewilderingly insane ruling, which completely disregarded the best interests of the child, just blew it completely out of the water.
