S. O. v. W. S.

OPINION

Before RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ. MATTHEWS, Justice.

About five months prior to her son’s birth, S.O. resolved that she would give her child up for adoption. Expecting to be hired for a job on the North Slope, S.O. felt that she would be unable to give the child the love and attention it would need. She also thought it important for a child to grow up in a two parent home, which she could not provide as she did not intend to continue her relationship with the child’s natural father.

S.O. initially investigated the possibility of an agency adoption and contacted the…