We need your Help, Grandparents Should Have Rights Part 2

[mariowedding]

Grandparents should only have rights in the case where the parents are unfit. Rights should not be automatic, because the kids belong to the parents and not the grandparents. If I make a child, carry it for nine months, then give birth to it, then it is ME who will decide who is fit to be in the child's life. This comment is not in reference to your situation at all. If a parent is deemed unfit or if a child has an established relationship with non-toxic grandparents then sure.

[Goldsand17]

It is time to return America the sense of family, in the best interest of my grandchild I am going to fight, make public, speak out!! I do not want my grandchild be part of the stadistics, or being found in a plastic bag, because DCF goes by the book. what about if I have witnesses, proof that I have being the mother of that child the last years, but under I outrage of my own child, my gradkid was removed!! what THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD MEANS AFTER ALL?

[Pawhitechick]

It is a shame good grandparents sometimes miss out.However to visit with grandchildren is a blessing- not a right. If a parent is declared fit they should have the right to decide what is in their child's best interest. To force visitation only adds stress on to the family and does ultimately affect the child or children. If grandparents are thinking of the children they would not be forcing anything. The only time I feel a grandparent has the right is when abuse or neglect are involved.

[chickieceba]

The grandkids were taken from the parents, and they are now in foster care. I just want the right to visit with my grandchildren, but in the state of North Carolina, grandparents have no rights. not even to visit grandchildren that were taken from the parents.

[DezzyRayz]

@chickieceba That is absolutely horrible. My heart goes out to you.

[SisTerri]

It is a right to be part of a grandchild's life. Not a blessing. You have children and almost certainly you probabley will have grandchildren.That's how it 's worked from the beginning of time. It's part of being a family. More harm is done to the children from keeping people that love them from a child. Someone that does that is certainly not thinking of the children. They are thinking of themselves.

[DezzyRayz]

@Pawhitechick If the parents of the grandchild cared about their children then they would NEVER dis-allowthere children to know their grand parnts. My daughter in law lets her mom see the kids all of the time and thinks it is fine that I don't get to see them ever. My little grandson knows me and wants to see me and they Won't Let Him. It is a ME generation and the parents are so power hungry that they use theri own kids as pawns. So Very Sad.

[MyPinkRainbow]

it is so awful that our adult children could keep us away from our grandchildren, i am raising mine, and the little one is a week old, i am going to check out your site