In Re the Welfare of B.M.

OPINION

FORSBERG, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment terminating the parental rights of appellants with respect to seven of their eight children. We affirm.

FACTS

There are eight children in the family. The oldest is now 18 and had been voluntarily placed by the parents in a children’s home. Parental rights as to the oldest child are not at issue.

The family has a long history of involvement with the county welfare agency and the courts, beginning in 1970. This history includes numerous incidents of physical abuse or threats of abuse by the mother, the mother’s intermittent hospitalization…