Delores B. Cardinal McCloskey Children's & Family Services v. Willie B.

In this case I believe the record amply sustains the majority’s conclusions that the agency fulfilled its statutory obligation and exerted the requisite "diligent efforts”, both before and after the respondent’s incarceration which commenced on April 10, 1979, and that the father failed to fulfill his duty to plan for the future of these children both before and after his incarceration.

I find untenable the dissent’s position that the father’s incarceration, which will extend for a period long beyond the children’s reaching majority, makes it impossible for him to devise a realistic plan for…