Adoption of Ramona

The biological mother appeals from decrees entered pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3, terminating her parental rights as to the three youngest of her five children: Ramona, bom on September 28, 1988, Curt, bom on June 22, 1990, and Sam, born on April 18, 1991. At all relevant times since removal from her mother’s care in early 1999, Ramona has been in the same preadoptive foster care setting, where she has flourished, and she wishes to be adopted by her foster mother. Accordingly, Ramona expresses reservation about her decree only insofar as it precludes posttermination and postadoption…