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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Wright finds the trial court properly terminated the father’s parental rights to his daughter. The father was in prison when his daughter was born, and he admitted that he used meth with the mother before his arrest. Although he didn’t specify that the mother used while she was pregnant, the jury could make reasonable inferences to find that the parents knowingly used meth together while the child was in utero. The jury could also reasonably conclude that the father’s imprisonment for at least three felonies created a life of uncertainty and instability due to his unavailability to care for the child in the mother’s absence after her removal for drug use. All evidence and record support the endangerment finding. The father also was able to meaningfully participate through Zoom, and his due process claim fails. Affirmed.