Adoption of Imelda

The mother appeals from a decree of the Juvenile *355Court dispensing with her consent to the adoption of her three year old daughter, Imelda. She argues that the evidence does not clearly and convincingly establish that she is currently unfit. She also claims that the judge’s subsidiary findings demonstrate that the judge did not engage in an “even handed review of the evidence” and that the judge erroneously failed to make specific and detailed findings regarding domestic violence in the adoptive home.

We note at the outset that this case is unusual because, ten months after the Department of…