in the Interest of S.M.L.

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• recognizing that a child is endangered when his environment creates a potential for danger of which the parent is aware but consciously disregards
• holding that clear and convincing evidence existed that termination of father’s parental rights was in child’s best interest where, among other factors, father was incarcerated at time of termination hearing and had pattern of criminal and violent conduct
• observing that incarcerated parent’s absence from the child’s daily life, inability to support the child, and parent’s commission of criminal acts subjecting him to possibility of incarceration can negatively impact the child’s emotional well-being and are factors supporting termination
• considering as evidence of endangerment father’s lack of demonstrated concern for his child in addition to his incarceration
• considering parent = s criminal behavior both before and after child = s birth as evidence of a course of conduct endangering the child
• noting imprisonment, alone, does not suffice to support termination under subsection (D)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).