In Re Catholic Charitable Bureau of Archdiocese of Boston, Inc.

As required, the judge’s findings “focused principally on the mother’s fitness — her capacity to assume parental responsibility.” Petition of the Dept. of Social Servs. to Dispense with Consent to Adoption, 392 Mass. 696, 700 (1984). In making his findings and arriving at the conclusion that “the biological parents 1 are currently unfit to assume responsibility for the child,” the judge applied the correct standard, viz., that of clear and convincing evidence. Id. at 696-700. See Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982).

Those findings, for which we find support in the record, include the…