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IN INTEREST OF K.F.

No. 88-628.

437 N.W.2d 559 (1989)

In the Interest of K.F., A Child. Appeal of K.F., Mother.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 22, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bobbi M. Alpers, Davenport, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Gordon E. Allen, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Charles K. Phillips, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee State of Iowa.

Gary D. McKenrick of Gomez, May, McKenrick & Kelly, Davenport, guardian ad litem for the child.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and HARRIS, SCHULTZ, NEUMAN, and ANDREASEN, JJ.

NEUMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a juvenile court judgment severing a mother-child relationship.1 The controversy brings into sharp focus the painful choices thrust upon the State as parens patriae when a natural parent suffers from a chronic mental illness. We transferred the case to the court of appeals which, on a five to one vote, reversed the juvenile court. Having granted applications by the State and the child's guardian...

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