F. v. C.

This is a father’s appeal from a decree of the circuit court terminating his parental rights and allowing the adoption of his son by the child’s maternal grandfather and stepgrandmother.

Father and mother were married on June 26, 1970; their son — the child involved in this proceeding — was born October 6 of that same year. Following his discharge from the Marine Corps in February of 1971 father and mother began experiencing domestic difficulties which became increasingly severe during the subsequent year when, due to father’s failure to maintain steady employment, they were compelled to call…