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In the Interest of T.B.

Evidence that the 16-year-old mother quit high school to get a job and that the 21-year-old father was not a model citizen did not support the termination of their parental rights, since both parents met most of the conditions for reunification with their son.

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This is a tale of two parents: a 16-year-old mother whose parental rights the court terminated because she dropped out of high school, and a 21-year-old father whose parental rights the court terminated because he was late in meeting some of the goals of his reunification plan. While it is important to receive an education, failure to complete school cannot be the primary reason to terminate parental rights, and thus we reverse the termination of the mother’s rights Case No. A99A2086. Nor are delays in meeting some goals of a court-ordered reunification plan alone sufficient, and thus we also reverse the termination of the father’s rights Case No. A99A2087.

Thirteen-year-old Samantha Elder and nineteen-year-old Michael Blassingame conceived a boy, T. B. Because of Samantha’s truancy from school, the Department of Family and Children Services took custody of Samantha prior to T. B.’s birth. DFACS also took custody of T. B. upon his birth and placed both T. B. and now fourteen-year-old Samantha in the same foster home, so she could help care for him.

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