after the first child was bom. The children had never lived with Arredondo alone, and the last time he saw them was December 8,2000. Arredondo has lived at different times with his mother, his brother, his grandmother, and with the children’s great-grandmother. He did not have medical insurance for the children but thought they were covered by Medicaid at one time. He claimed to have bought his children clothes and to have contributed to the purchase of food in the great-grandmother’s household when he was not in prison. However, he admitted the child’s mother was on food stamps, and Brenda also testified that Arredondo lived with the great-grandmother withou .App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 1998, no pet.), overruled in part on other grounds by In Interest of C.H., 89 S.W.3d 17 (Tex.2002) (<HOLDING>). Additionally, evidence of record also exists
holding that there was insufficient evidence to support that cyfd made reasonable efforts to assist the father because cyfd never informed him that his relationship with the mother was a cause and condition of the abuse and neglect that could be a basis for termination holding that fathers failure to acquire suitable home for his children pay even nominal child support visit or correspond with his children or make efforts to secure permanent employment were sufficient to demonstrate conscious disregard of his parental obligations holding that dhr properly ended reunification efforts after eight months when previous reunification efforts had failed and the record indicated that further efforts would be unavailing holding the evidence was sufficient to support termination under subsection n when after release from prison the defendant was advised of visitation but only visited with his children twice and made no further efforts to be involved with them and a case worker testified that all reasonable efforts were made to return the children to the parents holding that the existence of possible placement with a relative is irrelevant to the least restrictive means test where dcf made reasonable but unsuccessful efforts to rehabilitate the mother and provide services to her and her children with the goal of reuniting them as a functional family