Opinion ID: 2587730
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The capability and desire of the parents to care for their children

Text: While the superior court believed that both parents love their children and desire to care for them, it concluded that neither is presently able to care for them. Naomi is currently unemployed, without housing, and lacking in emotional stability. Elton is also unemployed but his other shortcomings are less tractable. According to the superior court, Elton has a pattern of abandoning his responsibilities and his family, exhibiting marginal judgment, and suffering from serious mental illness that requires treatment occupying the majority of his mental and emotional resources. The superior court believed that Naomi will be capable of caring for Julian and Carmen once she gets back on her feet. For Elton, on the other hand, there are structural limits on what he can do taking care of these two children as a primary care giver.