In re M. D. H.

MAUS, Judge.

In this case, while the trial court could have denied an adoption by either of the parties, essentially the trial court was called upon to determine whether a female child should be adopted by her foster parents (Respondents) or by her paternal grandmother and step-grandfather (Appellants). The trial court chose the foster parents. By their appeal the appellants ask this court to declare that the trial court made the wrong *449choice. The circumstances and proceedings by which this question has been posed are as follows.

The child was born December 14, 1974. On January 9,1975, on the…