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In re Dependency of C. C.3/1/1999
future by clear, cogent, and convincing evidence. Moreover, that same degree of convincing evidence supports the trial court's findings that services to the extent theoretically capable of meeting these parents' needs were offered, but that the parents' deficiencies are incapable of being remedied because their incapacities and deficiencies are so severe and chronic as to render them incapable of providing proper care for the child for extended periods of time.
C. Continued Custody Diminishes Prospects for Early Integration Our Supreme Court has held that this finding "necessarily follows from an adequate showing" that there is little likelihood that conditions will be remedied so that the child can be returned to the parent in the near future. J. C., 130 Wn.2d at 427. Because the trial court found clear, cogent, and convincing evidence that there is little likelihood that conditions will be remedied so that C. C. can be returned to his parents in the near future, it necessarily follows that that continuation of Mother and Father's parent-child relationships clearly diminishes C. C.'s prospects for early integration into a stable and permanent home.
Notwithstanding this necessary legal Conclusion, the record supports this finding independently. Mother and Father urged the trial court to postpone a decision on termination and continue visitation. They suggested that the trial court order the State to pay for a custody evaluation assessment involving interviews with their extended families through Dr. Benjamin at the University of Washington. But here, Aunt Sharon fears Mother. And Mother's unfounded allegation of abuse of C. C. and her incessant phone calls caused Aunt Sharon and Uncle Robert to be unwilling to participate in ongoing visitation between the parents and C. C. According to Dr. Johnson's testimony, cooperation between adoptive parents and biological parents is critical to the success of continued visitation. Without such cooperation, continued visitation would clearly diminish C. C.'s prospects for early integration into a stable and permanent home. In sum, the record contains substantial evidence to support the trial court's challenged findings. Accordingly, we affirm the trial court's termination of Mother's and Father's parent-child relationships with C. C.
WE CONCUR
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