In re Adelia A. CA2/3

I. Background

Mother has eight children born between 2007 and 2022. Father is the parent of the two youngest children, Adelia and S.A. Only Adelia is the subject of this appeal. Mother has a long history of substance abuse. She began using marijuana and methamphetamines in 2004 or 2005, when she was 15 or 16 years old, and she began using heroin in 2012. She had periods of sobriety after the births of several of her children, but she began using again during a four-year prison term between 2013 and 2017, and she continued using after her release. Mother was in and out of jail for drug activity and parole violations between 2017 and 2020, and she suffered a heroin overdose in 2020. Mother did not have custody of any of her six older children when Adelia was born in 2021. Four of the children had spent most of their lives in legal guardianship with the maternal

All undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 grandmother and great-grandmother; when the maternal grandmother and great-grandmother died in 2021, three children were placed with maternal great-aunt Carmen M., and one child, Melody P., was placed with the maternal grandfather.…