Parham v. Baldwin County Department of Family & Children Services

Banke, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order terminating the appellant’s parental rights in her three-year-old son.

When the child was born, on March 2,1978, the appellant was 13 years old. She voluntarily placed the child in foster care two months later, when she was sent to a Youth Development Center for automobile theft. Upon her return from the center some six months later, she agreed with the Department to live in the same foster home with the child and to take various steps to establish her ability to care for him; however, she left that home approximately six weeks later because of a…