Concluding a teenage mother who placed her infant with prospective adoptive parents had abandoned the child, the superior court terminated her parental rights. The court determined the natural father was not a presumed father (Civ. Code, § 7017) and his consent to the adoption was unnecessary. The court rejected the natural parents' petition for return of the...
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