In re T.C.B.

BRYANT, Judge.

P.N.S. (respondent-father) appeals a judgment adjudicating that grounds exist to terminate his parental rights as to his natural daughter T.C.B.

L.B. (the mother) and respondent are the natural parents of T.C.B., born 21 September 1995. Both the mother and the respondent were 14 years of age at the time T.C.B. was conceived. On 2 February 2002, the mother filed a petition to terminate the parental rights of respondent on the ground that he willfully abandoned T.C.B. as defined by N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-llll(a)(7). Respondent filed an answer requesting that his parental rights not…