In Re the Adoption of Reinius

(dissenting)—I dissent for the following reasons: (1) Appellant assigns error to that portion of the trial court’s finding of fact No. 3 (relating to the fitness of the respondents) which states “that said petitioners are fully able and qualified to support and care for said children,” and also to the following portion of finding of fact No. 4: “that petitioners, Howard Pelland and Edythe Pelland are proper persons for the adoption of said minor children.”

In an adoption proceeding, the determination of the parental fitness of adoptive parents is a factual one. Each of the respondents was a…