Adoption of Yale

At age sixteen, the mother was adjudicated unfit to parent her first child after the child’s unexplained injuries, coupled with the mother’s involvement in an abusive relationship, led the Department of Social Services (department) to petition for termination of the mother’s parental rights. The mother did not contest that action, nor did she contest termination of her parental rights as to a second child, bom a little more than a year after entry of the first termination decree. *237Now twenty-six years old, and having borne a son — her third child — she appeals from a decree of the Juvenile…