In re Prince McM.
Opinion of the Court
Orders of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Douglas E. Hoffman, J.), entered on or about May 7, 2009 and October 6, 2009 which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, upon fact-findings of permanent neglect, terminated respondent mother’s parental rights to the seven subject children, and committed the children’s guardianship and custody to petitioner agency and the Commissioner of Administration for Children’s Services for the purpose of adoption, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The agency also established by a fair preponderance of the evidence that the best interests of each of the children would be served by terminating respondent mother’s parental rights so as to facilitate their adoption. The agency demonstrated that all of the children are in stable and supportive foster homes, and that two of the three children respondent mother seeks to have returned to her are in preadoptive homes. Termination of respondent mother’s parental rights provides these children with a realistic opportunity to free themselves from a troubled past (see Matter of Jasmine Pauline M., 62 AD3d 483 [2009]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Friedman, Catterson, Renwick and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.
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