In Re the Welfare of Frederiksen

Turner, J. *

This is an appeal by a mother from two orders of the juvenile court: (1) one order adjudges that her infant daughter, Susanna Lee, age 6 months, is a "dependent child," and places her legal custody in the State Department of Social and Health Services to arrange proper foster care; (2) the other order permanently deprives appellant of all parental rights in her two older children, Ian Frederiksen, age 4, and Bethany Lee, age 2.

Appellant was married to George Frederiksen from 1973 to 1976, when they were divorced. Ian Frederiksen was born to that marriage. The father, George, had…