In Re Ann Marie

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is an appeal of the Department of Children and their Families (DCF or the department) from a Family Court decree 1 dismissing the department’s August 19, 1980 petition to terminate the parental rights of a mother, to whom we shall hereinafter refer as Kathy. The April 18, 1981 dismissal came at the conclusion of the department’s presentation of evidence on its petition wherein it alleged that Kathy’s daughter, Ann Marie, had been in the care of a licensed governmental child-placement agency for a period of at least six months and that the integration of the child…