In re Jenelle P.

—Yesawich Jr., J.

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of St. Lawrence County (Rogers, S.), entered January 24,1994, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law article VII, denied respondent’s application to set aside an extrajudicial consent permitting the adoption of her child.

In December 1992, respondent approached petitioners—the sister and brother-in-law of a man with whom she had previously been romantically involved—and asked if they would consider adopting her daughter, Jenelle, who was then three years old and, in respondent’s view, becoming increasingly…