ADOPTION OF LORIN

No. 99-P-1444.

50 Mass. App. Ct. 561 (2000)

ADOPTION OF LORIN (and a companion case).

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Hampden.

December 4, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia A. Peel, Special Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Dorothy Meyer Storrow for Sheila.

William B. Tobey for Lorin.

Present: GREENBERG, KAPLAN, & DUFFLY, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

In the nature of this appeal and its outcome, we need not state the facts in any detail. The general scene is the not unfamiliar one of the biological father gone; the mother lacking in education, diminished by bad habits, overburdened by children (here six by her twenty-third year); the children handicapped through poor upbringing, squalid surroundings, and poverty. The general scene is lightened here by hints of improvement on the part of the mother and...

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