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Uploaded by on Dec 20, 2007

A U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2000 put in motion a roiling debate that pits parents against grandparents in a struggle for child visitation rights.

Richard Kent, a family lawyer at Fairfield, Conn.-based Meyers Breiner & Kent, frequently goes to courtroom battle for grandparents seeking visitation with, or custody of, grandchildren.

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  • If you don't pay a kid's bills and take care of them you have no rights even if you are one of their parents after a divorce. How in the hell do grandparents think they have some kind of right to see their offspring's offspring?Leave it to selfish, sick in the head baby boomers to bring attorneys into something like this. The worst generation of granparents in human history demanding visitation.Remeber the "Grandparents" today were the self absorbed dirtbag parents of 20-30 years ago..

  • @wogbunny to bad my mothers father doesn't give a damn about me, i'm 20+ years old now and now he wants to come around. i understand he wont be around much longer. But it's his fault....

  • A Grandparent means your a Grand-Parent now because your Child/ren happen to be a Parent to a child/ren of there own/that is also the other persons child/ren. It does not actually make you a Parent to your Child/rens-Child/ren. But it does make your Child/rens Child/ren your Grand-Children & you the Grand-Parent to your Child/rens Child/ren. Our children have a Narcissistic baby boomer Paternal Grand-Mother. She was raised an only child & 3 half sisters she never met. She never liked her MIL.

  • This generation is purely narcissistic. I would not have ever kept my kids from either grandparents. I don't know how they even live with themselves. Yes, they use their kids as Bate. How sick is this world? Grand means great and Parent means your the next in line as a parent of the children. It's a sick world.

  • Lets say that the kids we raised are now using their kids, our grandkids, as bate so that we do what they say or else we loose the ability to see our grandkids. It is cruel to the babies themselves as we all have much to offer our grandkids, Love being the most valuable asset to offer them.

    Very sad world we live in today.

  • What people don't understand IS that it is not about grandparents rights, it's about parental rights!! grandparents should have the same rights as any extended relative, which is few to none.

  • @gramz2two that is so very sad. You did the right thing but daughter in laws are evil these days and only want it to be aobut their family and to heck with the fsons mom / dad...............It is so wrong for one side of the grandparents to see the children due to her being the mother of the daughter in law. My son is brainwashed by his wifes mother and I am exhausted from fighting them to see my grandbabies.

  • I love my grandsons. My son married a girl and they then my daughter in law gave birth to my first and then my second granson. I went through divorce myself after 27 years of marriage and so I lost my home and had to move into a smaller home. It is very clean and my daughter in law says that she is very close to HER MOM and so it is only normal that her mom see the babies more than me. She also uses an excuse that my house is not baby proofed. I am heartbroken and have no recourse.

  • Oh my....I think the question is: Why should they have rights? Did their parents have rights over their children? Do regular babysitters have rights over children they watch? NO. Nor should they. Advocating for grandparents? Give me a break. This stupid law destroyed my family and my children. Its a sick sad world when grandparents raise their kids, then feel the need to forceably take their grandchildren. I would never do this to my kids with their kids, its sickening.

  • I have not seen my grandchildren in almost 2yrs (they live in NJ and I live in PA) I lost in court as my grandson is 6 and granddaughter 2 and I did not have "a long-term" bond with them,

    My son was forced to sign a document by her attorney that he was not allowed to bring them near me or she would stop all his visitations and I love my son enough to stay away so he can be a father to them,

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