In re Adoption Fern

A judge of the Juvenile Court terminated the father's parental rights to the child and declined to order posttermination and postadoption visitation. The father does not appeal from the termination of his parental rights but argues, for the first time on appeal, that the judge abused her discretion in declining to order posttermination and postadoption visitation.3 Even assuming this issue is properly before us, it fails on the merits.

A judge has the discretion to order posttermination and postadoption visitation when it is in the child's best interests. See Adoption of Douglas, 473 Mass.…