Adoption of Oliver

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• parental unfitness established where child had special needs and parent has little or no understanding of those needs, or willingness or ability to meet them
• parental unfitness can be established where child has substantial needs requiring extraordinary attentiveness from caregiver and where parent has little or no understanding of those needs, or willingness or ability to meet them
• parent found unfit where infant hospitalized for inability to gain weight and parent showed \no comprehension of his problems and does not acknowledge that he has problems\
• mother properly found unfit where she had little understanding of child's substantial needs
• parental unfitness can be established where child has substantial needs 16The mother takes issue with this finding because the judge relied on a statement contained in a G. L. c. 119, § 51A, report (51A report
• parent found unfit where infant was unable to gain weight, among other issues, and parent showed \no comprehension of [the infant's] problems and d[id] not acknowledge that he ha[d] problems\ that were exacerbated by his environment

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