In re Adoption of N.N.C.

This is an appeal from a July 28, 1980 Order terminating appellant’s parental rights pursuant to section 311(1) of The Adoption Act of 1970. 1 P.S. § 311(1).' Section 311(1) provides that parental rights may be terminated if “[t]he parent by conduct continuing for a period of at least six months ... has refused or failed to perform parental duties.”

A recent opinion of the United States Supreme Court, Santosky v. Kramer, Commissioner, Ulster County Dept. of Social Services, et al., 455 U.S. 745, 102 S.Ct. 1388, 71 *459L.Ed.2d 599 (1982), raised the burden of proof in involuntary termination of…