In Re Christina V.

OPINION

Both the respondent-mother, Donna Alden (mother), and the respondent-father, Carlos (father) appeal from a Family Court decree terminating their parental rights to their daughter, Christina V., who was born on May 26, 1991. Following a prebriefing conference before a single justice of this Court, we assigned this appeal to the motion calendar and ordered the parties to show cause why we should not resolve this appeal summarily. Because no cause has been shown, we proceed to do so.

On January 10, 1996, a Family Court trial justice concluded that the Department of Children, Youth, and…