Petitions of the Dept of Soc. Serv to Dispense

The mother of four daughters appeals from a Probate Court decision granting the petitions of the Department of Social Services (department) to dispense with her consent to adoption of each of the daughters. On September 26, 1978, approximately four years before the trial commenced, the three older girls, along with their two brothers, were committed by order of the West Roxbury District Court to the permanent care and custody of the department pursuant to G. L. c. 119. The three girls then ranged in age from eleven months to three years and ten months. They were placed, apparently together,…