Matter of SYM

TAYLOR, Chief Justice.

Due to incarceration and unfitness as a parent, appellant suffered termination of his parental rights to his minor children on the petition of appellee. Appellant claims his lack of fitness was not established and that less intrusive means of protecting the children were not undertaken. The constitutional magnitude of parental rights cannot, however, gainsay clear and convincing evidence that appellant is neither fit to the task of parenting nor up to the task of making himself so. We affirm.

I. ISSUES

In his statement of the issues, DKM (appellant) makes the following…