Adoption of Melvin

After a seven-day trial, a judge of the Juvenile Court wrote a thoughtful and comprehensive opinion concluding that the mother was unfit to parent her child, whom we shall call Melvin, and that her unfitness was highly likely to continue indefinitely. As a result, the judge issued a decree dispensing with the mother’s consent to adoption. See G. L. c. 119, § 26; G. L. c. 210, § 3.2 The mother appeals and we affirm.

*707The facts found by the judge supported the application of eight of the fourteen factors a judge must consider when making judgments about fitness. See G. L. c. 210, § 3(c).3 As in…