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In the Interest of H. L. H.

The mother lacked stable employment and housing, drank heavily, used marijuana and snorted cocaine.

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The biological mother of H. L. H. and J. M. appeals the juvenile court’s order terminating her parental rights.1 Because there was sufficient evidence to support the juvenile court’s decision, we affirm. In considering the mother’s appeal, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the juvenile court’s disposition and determine whether any rational trier of fact could have found by clear and convincing evidence that the mother’s right to custody should have been terminated. We neither weigh the evidence nor determine the credibility of any witnesses, but instead defer to the juvenile court’s findings of fact. Citation omitted. In the Interest of N. S. E. , 287 Ga. App. 186, 187 651 SE2d 123 2007. So viewed, the record reflects that in the early morning hours of August 22, 2004, the teenage mother went to a local Wal-Mart with her two minor children, H. L. H. and J. M. Police officers subsequently stopped the mother and children as they were walking down the side of the road. Upon investigation, the officers discovered that the mother had stolen merchandise from the Wal-Mart. The officers arrested the mother for shoplifting, and the two children were taken into the emergency custody of the Gordon County Department of Family and Children Services “DFCS”. At the time the children were taken into emergency custody, the mother lacked stable employment and was living with a boyfriend and the children in a small motel room. H. L. H. was approximately one and a half years old, and J. M. was approximately one month old.

With the mother’s consent, the juvenile court entered an order adjudicating the children deprived on the grounds that the mother was currently incarcerated on the pending shoplifting charge and lacked stable housing and employment. The children were placed with foster parents and have remained with them throughout the entire course of the instant case.

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