In the Interest of V H.

Doyle, Judge.

The father of a seven-year-old girl, V H., appeals from a juvenile court order finding the child to be deprived. In his single enumeration of error, the father contends that the court erred by allowing a law enforcement officer to testify about the father’s purported unwillingness to speak to the officer and by drawing a negative inference from the father’s exercise of his right to remain silent. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

*583A deprived child is one who is without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control…