B. Children. Department of Social Services v. Fatima B.

Order, Family Court, New York County (Leah Ruth Marks, F.C.J.), entered September 15, 1989, which terminated respondent’s parental rights to four of her children, and which awarded guardianship and custody of those children to the Commissioner of Social Services for the purpose of adoption, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Respondent contends that the agency failed to prove either that it exercised diligent efforts to strengthen the parental relationship between herself and her children, or that it was excused from doing so. To the contrary, the record demonstrates that the agency…