In Re the Adoption of D. P.

ROSE, Justice.

These appeals are from the entry of separate final decrees of adoption affecting the care and custody of two minor boys. Appellant is the mother of the boys, while the appellee is the stepmother of the father of D.P. At the time of D.P.’s birth, his mother was not married. The other boy, F.P., was born while appellant was married to a man unrelated to appellee. On November 21, 1975, separate interlocutory decrees of adoption were entered — premised on written consents to the adoptions filed by the appellant and the natural fathers of the children- — awarding care and custody to…