M.S. v. Alabama Department of Human Resources

THOMAS, Judge.

M.S. (“the mother”) appeals from a judgment terminating her parental rights to her son D.S. (“the child”). We affirm.

The mother is 31 years old; by her own admission, she has been an alcoholic since the age of 16. She suffers from cirrhosis of the liver and paranoid schizophrenia. The Madison Juvenile Court had previously terminated her parental rights to another child. The child who is the subject of the present appeal was born on January 29, 2008. He was removed from the mother’s custody on February 8, 2008, when he was 10 days old, following a domestic-violence incident…