In the Interest of Ponx

LARSON, Justice.

This is the second appeal to this court involving termination of the parent-child relationship between Barbara Louise Ponx and Robert Dean Ponx, Jr., “Bobby,” her son. The earlier case, In re Lewis, 257 N.W.2d 505 (Iowa 1977), resulted in termination of the parents’ rights as to two other children, and in dismissal of the termination petition as to this child because he had not previously been adjudged a “dependent” child as required by the statute under which petitioner sought the terminations. Section 232.41(2)(e), The Code 1975. We said that “[u]nder these circumstances,…