In the Interest of J. R.

LARSON, Justice.

Paul and Connie, the natural, paternal grandparents of minors J.R. and S.R., appeal the juvenile court’s rulings that the grandparents lacked standing to intervene in proceedings to terminate the parental rights of the children’s natural parents, Curtis and Rose Ann, and that the best interests of the children required adoption by anonymous third parties, rather than by the grandparents, to assure that the natural parents never again have contact with the children.

On May 7,1981, pursuant to an emergency order, three-year-old J. R. and nine-month-old S. R. were removed from the…