In re T.S.M.

OPINION

Justice BAER.

We granted review in this case involving petitions for termination of parental rights for five siblings to consider how trial courts should weigh the existence of “pathological” emotional bonds between parents and children. This family of seven children, the five youngest of whom are before the Court, epitomizes the problem of foster care drift, as the family has been involved with the Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth, & Family Services (“CYF”) for nearly a decade, and each child has had between six and thirteen foster placements. As a result, the children have…