Instruction was repeated and provided at a level appropriate for Mother to understand by using concrete examples, visual aides, and verbal instruction. Everyone who worked with the family was aware of Mother's limited cognitive abilities. Mother also completed parenting instruction on her own initiative in two more formalized programs. Instruction on a more limited basis was also given Father who refused to accept it. However, the circumstances with this family would not improve with additional parenting instruction.
Mother is unable to provide adequate supervision now and in the near future.
A psychologist concluded in the court-ordered evaluation that she clearly cannot parent W.G. and P.G. without Father's support as the boys become adolescents and teenagers. Father, at age sixty-four, was not believed by the trial court to be able or willing to change his parenting style, having been raised himself and having raised two previous families in a strict authoritarian style. He rejected instruction that blaming the boys for their removal was not appropriate. Moreover, he is not willing to quit drinking alcohol, which psychologists testified significantly reduced his parenting abilities. As the boys grow older, they need more than Mother and Father are able and willing to provide.