In Re William, Susan, and Joseph

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Family Court terminating the parental rights of Gloria in her three children, William, Susan, and Joseph, aged seven, six, and four, respectively, at the time of the March 1981 trial. 1 The Department of Children and Their Families (DCF or the department) brought the termination action on the grounds that Gloria was an unfit parent by “reason of conduct or conditions seriously detrimental to the child * * * [namely] [e]motional illness, mental illness, [or] mental deficiency * * * of such duration as to render it improbable for…