In Re Jack L.

The respondents, mother and father, appeal an order of the Henniker Family Division (Scheffy, J.) terminating their parental rights over their son, Jack L., on the grounds of abandonment. See RSA 170-C:5, I (2002); RSA 170-C:15 (2002). We affirm.

I

The record supports the following. Jack L. was born in February 1999 to the respondents. In January 2004, based on certain aspects of the mother’s treatment of the child, the Coos County Probate Court granted, with the consent of the parents, a guardianship over the child to his paternal grandmother.

Three years later, the division for children, youth…