The order appealed from should be affirmed, without costs. In a proceeding seeking to terminate parental rights on the ground of abandonment so as to free a child for adoption, the fundamental inquiry must be whether in fact the parent's behavior constituted abandonment, and not whether such a finding would be in the "best interests" of the child. This is so because "a court may not terminate all parental rights...
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