In re Adoption of S.P.

OPINION

Justice BAER.

We granted allocatur in the above-captioned case to consider the Superior Court’s application of the standard of review and to evaluate the relevance of a parent’s incarceration to a trial court’s decision to terminate a father’s parental rights under 23 Pa.C.S. § 2511(a)(2). For *819the reasons set forth below, we reverse the Superior Court and reinstate the trial court’s order terminating parental rights.

G.P. (“Father”), then nineteen, and B.D. (“Mother”), then approximately seventeen, were involved in an intimate relationship prior to Father’s incarceration in December 2004…