Matter of Adoption of Charles EDM, II

OPINION

NEWMAN, Justice.

April D. challenges the termination of her parental rights to her two children, twelve-year-old Charles E.D. M., II (Charles II) and eleven-year-old Ashley Rebecca M. (Ashley). We reverse.

FACTS

April D. and Charles M. were married in 1984. The couple subsequently had two children. Charles II was born on June 4, 1985, when April D. was twenty-two years old and Charles M. was thirty-seven years old. Their second child, Ashley, was born one year later, on July 15,1986.

In September of 1987, the two parents separated and Charles M. was awarded custody of the two children. In…