State Ex Rel. State Office for Services to Children & Families v. Freeman

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• concluding that, although incarceration alone is not sufficient, “a recurring pattern of criminal conduct and incarceration,” in combination with other factors weighing against fitness, can justify termination of parental rights
• relying on the absence of the father from his children’s lives and the resultant lack of a parent-child bond in concluding that father was unfit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).