A. F. v. Spence Chapin Agency

OPINION OF THE COURT

Sara P. Schechter, J.

Petitioner in the custody case before the court is the 16-year-old father of an out-of-wedlock infant, to whose adoption he consented. The baby was also surrendered for adoption by the biological mother (hereinafter by the appellation of her choosing, birth mother). The birth mother, also a teen-ager, does not seek to revoke her surrender. On the contrary, her position in the litigation was entirely supportive of the respondent in the proceeding, Spence Chapin Services for Families and Children (hereinafter the agency), an authorized adoption agency,…