In Re Gabriel G.

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This appeal is before the Supreme Court from a decision of the Family Court terminating the parental rights of the respondent-father (father), to his son, Gabriel. The mother of Gabriel was also named as a respondent in the same petition. Her parental rights were terminated simultaneously with the father’s, but she has not appealed. The petition filed by the Department of Children and Their Families (department) alleged as grounds the provisions of G.L.1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 15-7-7(b)(1) and (c). After hearing, the Family Court rendered a decision granting the agency’s…