In re J.S. & S.S.

Father and mother appeal the family court’s order terminating their parental rights with respect to their son, J.S. We affirm.

Father and mother were married in February 1989. Their marriage was fraught with domestic violence from the beginning. Father was convicted of domestic assault on three occasions in 1994 and 1995. In 1995, he was also convicted of violating a relief-from-abuse order and violating pretrial conditions of release.

Father and mother’s daughter, S.S., was born in October 1989, and their son, J.S., was born in September 1992. By the fall of 1994, the Department of Social and…