J.M.

I. BACKGROUND

A. Initial Petition In September 2013, the San Mateo County Human Services Agency (the Department) filed a petition pursuant to section 300 on behalf of J.S. (Minor), then seven years old. The petition alleged Mother had an ongoing pattern of exposing Minor to domestic violence present in Mother’s relationships with her current and former boyfriends. The petition also alleged Minor had been left unsupervised for hours at a

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

1 time, that she walked to school alone, that she had been absent from school or tardy many times, and that the family’s home was uninhabitable and hazardous. Mother and her current boyfriend, E.N., had refused to accept services offered by the Department because they did not believe in government intervention. According to the initial petition report, Mother had lost her parental rights to an older child in 2005, after she neglected her physically while she lived with her in the home of her then-fiancé, who operated a methamphetamine laboratory from his home. The older child had been exposed to methamphetamine. Minor tested positive for methamphetamine at her birth in 2006.…