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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 6-887 / 06-1468 Filed November 16, 2006 IN THE INTEREST OF D.W., E.W., A.W., and T.W., Minor Children, V.W., Father, Appellant. ________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Muscatine County, John G. Mullen, Associate Juvenile Judge.

A father appeals the termination of his parental rights to his children. AFFIRMED.

Timothy Schemmel, Assistant Public Defender, Muscatine, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Kathrine S. Miller-Todd, Assistant Attorney General, Gary Allison, County Attorney, and Korie L. Shippee, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee. Sharon Halstoos, Cedar Rapids, for mother. Arlene Poock, Muscatine, guardian ad litem for minor children.

Considered by Sackett, C.J., and Zimmer and Eisenhauer, JJ.

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EISENHAUER, J. A father appeals the termination of his parental rights to his children. He contends the State failed to prove the grounds for termination by clear and convincing evidence and that the State failed to make reasonable efforts to reunify him with the children. We review his claims de novo. In re C.H., 652 N.W.2d 144, 147 (Iowa 2002). Of the four children involved, one is under the age of three and three are four years of age or older. The father's parental rights were terminated pursuant to Iowa Code sections 232.116(1)(f), (h), and (l) (2005). We need only find

termination proper under one ground to affirm. In re R.R.K., 544 N.W.2d 274, 276 (Iowa Ct. App. 1995). He does not dispute the first three elements of

sections 232.116(1)(f) (child four or older, adjudicated CINA, out of the home twelve of the last eighteen months) and 232.116(1)(h) (child three or younger, out of home six of last twelve months, adjudicated CINA) have been met. Instead, he contends the State failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence the children cannot be returned to his care as provided in section 232.102. See Iowa Code

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