In re Emma R. CA4/3

I. BACKGROUND

Emma, a little girl now almost three years old, was born in September 2013, with methamphetamine in her system and a number of congenital heart defects. Her younger sister Olivia, now almost a year and a half old, was born in February 2015, with methamphetamine in her system and suffering from Incontinentia Pigmenti, a congenital condition that affects a number of bodily organs, including the brain and the eyes. Their mother, Sonia R., now appeals from orders made March 14, 2016 terminating her parental rights to both young children.1 Sonia makes no argument based on her own relationship to the two children (such as the oft-litigated benefit exception of Welfare and Institutions Code section 366.26, subd. (c)(1)(B)(i)2), but rather presents only the issue of the “adoptability” of the two children given their congenital disabilities. By the time of the March 14, 2016 orders of termination, a prospective adoptive couple had been located and the children had been living with them for a little more than two months, having been placed in the couple’s home on January 10, 2016. For a month before the placement, the couple had regular preplacement visits in December 2015,…