In Re Swope

Petitioners Edwin and Lynn Swope appeal as pf right a probate court order dismissing their petition to terminate their parental rights to their adopted child, hereafter referred to as M, born February 7, 1976. We affirm.

Petitioners adopted M and her biological sister in June 1979. M is, by all accounts, a pretty, talented, likeable young woman. M had been the victim of physical abuse before her adoption. It appears from the record that M believed petitioners adopted her only because they wanted her sister, and petitioners apparently did not dissuade M from this belief. M evidently experienced…