Adoption of Inez

This is an appeal from the grant of care and protection petitions under G. L. c. 119, § 26, and petitions to dispense with parental consent to adoption pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3. After the petitions were granted in the Boston Division of the Juvenile Court Department, the Appeals Court reversed and remanded for a new trial to reconsider the petitions. Adoption of Inez, 45 Mass. App. Ct. 171, 184 (1998). We granted David’s application for further appellate review and now affirm the judgment of the Juvenile Court.

I. Facts. We draw our facts from the trial judge’s memoran*718dum of decision, and…