In re Valerie D.

The dispositive issues in this appeal are whether: (1) General Statutes § 45a-717 (f) (2)1 permits *495the termination of the parental rights of the mother of an infant based upon the mother’s prenatal conduct of injecting cocaine; and (2) General Statutes *496§ 45a-717 (f) (3); see footnote 1, supra; as applied to the facts of this case, permits the termination of the same parental rights upon the basis of an absence of an ongo*497ing parent-child relationship between the mother and the infant. The respondent mother2 appeals, upon our grant of certification, from the judgment of the Appellate Court…