Matter of Parental Rights of SCN

RAPER, Justice.

We are called on, in this appeal, to review the district court’s dismissal of a mother’s petition to terminate a father’s legal parent-child relationship with his children. The petition was brought by SC (appellant), the natural mother of two minor children, SCN and NAN, to terminate the legal parent-child relationship of the children’s natural father (appellee), DN. Appellant brought the petition pursuant to § 14-2-308, et seq., W.S.1977, Cum.Supp.1982, entitled “Termination of Parental Rights,” for the grounds contained in § 14-2-309(a)(i), W.S.1977, Cum.Supp.1982. 1 The…