In the Interest of J.R.

OXBERGER, Chief Judge.

The child in question is a boy born in November 1987. His mother was seventeen years old and unmarried at the time of his birth. The father is not known and has never contacted the child.

At the time of the child’s birth, the mother was under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, having been adjudicated herself a child in need of assistance. For about the first eleven months of his life, the mother cared for the child. Soon after the child’s birth, the two lived in a residential treatment program called the Teenage Parent Program. The mother and child left the Teenage…