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I'm posting this question, because apparently some grandparents actually think they have certain rights with regard to their grandchildren. Don't get me wrong. I think that it's sometimes tragic when grandparents lose contact with their grandchildren, because of family acrimony or for various other reasons. However, I can't help but think that only the PARENTS and the GUARDIANS are the ones who should have the final say regarding whom their children should have contact with and that no court should be allowed to interfere with this right.
2007-08-20 05:37:03 · 10 answers · asked by tangerine 7 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
i've observed that most of the grandparents who have issues over seeing the grandchildren have caused the problem themselves.
it seems as if some parents have a hard time letting go, try to tell their kids how to live their lives, give too many opinions about their choice of spouse instead of letting their child make choices, and are general control freaks.
minding our own business, allowing others to live their lives as they see fit, would make for better relationships.
some people can't leave well enough alone.
2007-08-20 05:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by letterstoheather 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Many state laws now provide reasonable visitation rights for maternal and paternal grandparents. However, since legislation varies widely from state to state, even if you win your case in one state, you will have to start all over again if your grandchildren move to another state.
If possible, have grandparent visitation rights included in the divorce decree. If you are having a problem seeing your grandchildren, and visitation rights were not included in the decree, you can apply to the District Court for the right to visit with an unmarried minor child. However, the courts must consider whether grandparents' visitation is in the best interest of the child.
On June 5, 2000, the United States Supreme Court decided a grandparent access case called Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000). Troxel addressed what rights grandparents have to maintain a relationship with their grandchildren after their child has died and over the surviving parent's objection. The decision in Troxel - consisting of a plurality opinion, two concurrences and three dissents - further muddied an already unclear are of the law. The only clear holding from Troxel was that a "fit" parent had the right to decide whether a child's grandparents could have access to the child.
2007-08-20 06:00:51 · answer #2 · answered by The Scorpion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This gets me every time. I agree with the parents and stepparents having a say in the childrens lives if they are active. I say this because i have been in the same relation ship for 2 and somthing years, and I raise my stepkids more than their mother, she is hardly ever home with them, not just work, she parties after, and the sad thing is, she has every other week to do this, and she does it all the time. Her mother raises the children on her time, not her. Her mother tells her what to do with her kids, And im not talking bad about Taylor on this, being her mom helps her out, but She is the mother. Also one of my friends children has to go to their grandparents house EVERY sat after noon for a couple of hours, and they arent the best people, they do drugs, and she has two boyfriends, it has been this way for a very long time though, about 12 or so years, the same men, and the court looked at the parents as being petty when they tried to bring this up...She is the reason she couldnt always have her grandchild, because she did drugs, and she had multiple boy friends and couldnt take care of her own kids when they were growing up..??? IT is very sad...
2007-08-20 07:09:09 · answer #3 · answered by Just Wondering 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legally, only parents and guardians have rights on a child. Grandparents can be overbearing and critical (they will call it "trying to help)
Unless the child is in danger only parents have legal rights. although, I have heard of cases where grandparents take Daughters in law, sons etc to court over "their rights" to their grandchildren. Some have won, I think. It's disgusting!!
2007-08-20 05:52:04 · answer #4 · answered by Centered 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The only time a grandparent should interfere is if the child is being abused or when the child truly wants to be around them. That is the only time.
2007-08-20 05:44:39 · answer #5 · answered by RedRabbit 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
some grandparents are the guardians. and with the way society is today a lot of grandparents are raising there grandchildren.
2007-08-20 05:44:35 · answer #6 · answered by sassy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have a grandson with another grandchild on the way. And I agree with you 100%. The one exception would be if they are hurting the child. Then no one but God Himself would stop me from interferring; and even he would have a hard time.
2007-08-20 05:58:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
your tone suggests that you are having trouble with either your parents or your husbands parents interfering in how you are raising your children? i for instance, am raising my grand-daughter,whom i have had since birth, there are times when i feel my daughter interferes in how i am raising her.ie she told her she could get a tattoo for her 14th birthday , which i shot down , to my grand daughters dismay. she didn't speak to me all day...oh well.every situation is different. i hope you do not try to shut your children's grand parents out of their lives...they really do need each other.
2007-08-20 05:54:50 · answer #8 · answered by jazzy l 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is all a matter of Cultural and the ties animating from it.
Remember if their were NO Grandparents there would be NO parents.
2007-08-20 06:02:23 · answer #9 · answered by jittender k 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends on the state. In some states gparents do have legal rights to their grandkids.
2007-08-20 05:53:31 · answer #10 · answered by Question Addict 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋