In Re the Adoption of Female Child X

GUTHRIE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the petition of the petitioners seeking the adoption of a female child. These petitioners are husband and wife, and the wife is the grandmother of this child, who is the offspring of her daughter, a respondent. At the time this child was born the mother was unmarried.

The respondents are the mother of this child and her husband, whom she married after the birth of the child. To avoid any possible embarrassment to the child involved, none of the parties will be referred to by name, but as petitioners or respondents; however,…