In re Anthony B.

Anthony B. (Father) appeals a juvenile court order terminating his parental rights to the minor, Anthony B. (Anthony), and choosing adoption as the appropriate permanent plan. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 366.26; all further statutory references are to this code unless noted.) Anthony was born premature and needed to stay in the hospital. The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (Agency) filed a petition under section 300, subdivision (b) on Anthony’s behalf, believing neither Anthony’s mother nor Father could safely care for him. The Agency cited the mother’s mental illness, the father’s failure to protect, the lack of a suitable living condition, and the parents’ previous separate failures to reunify with Anthony’s siblings due to domestic violence and substance abuse, which justified the removal. Anthony was removed from Father and his mother and placed in a foster home. Reunification services were ordered for Father but bypassed for the mother. The Agency requested the court terminate Father’s reunification services at the 18-month permanency review hearing because Father failed to maintain sobriety and did not have a safe and stable environment for Anthony to…