the fact of his/her incarceration. See W.Va.Code § 49-6-5(a, b). Indeed, in our numerous cases applying the Legislature’s edicts in this regard, we also have been reluctant to find that incarceration, per se, warrants the termination of an imprisoned parent’s parental rights. See, e.g., State v. Tammy R., 204 W.Va. 575, 577 n. 4, 578 n. 7, & 580 n. 13, 514 S.E.2d 631, 633 n. 4, 634 n. 7, & 636 n. 13 (1999) (per curiam) (limiting appellate review to issue of child’s placement and declining to consider whether mother’s- incarceration amounted to abandonment so as to warrant termination of her parental rights); West Virginia Dep’t of Health & Human Resources ex rel. Wright v. Brenda C., 197 W.Va. 468, 479, 475 S.E.2d 560, 571 (1996) (per curiam) (Cleckley and Albright, JJ., concurring) (<HOLDING>); Nancy Viola R. v. Randolph W., 177 W.Va. 710,
holding that although petitioners dueprocess rights were not violated under the circumstances of that case in some cases due process would require appointment of counsel in a decision to terminate parental status holding that dcs did not have to provide reasonable efforts when petitioning to terminate parental rights based upon the ground of abandonment holding evidence legally and factually sufficient under sections d and e to terminate mothers parental rights based in part on evidence that mother placed children with physically abusive father holding that evidence did not support termination of parental rights to two children despite mothers prior conviction for killing her stepchild recognizing majoritys failure to address impact of mothers incarceration upon circuit courts decision to terminate her parental rights