The Rights of Grandparents to See Grandchildren - Because Legacy Matters

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Angela_Montgomery]Angela Montgomery
We live in a world where our rights are constantly under assault by the current political "flavor of the month". As older Americans, many of us face discrimination in the workplace, increased sickness & disease, fixed incomes, difficulty with adult children, and even problems with the rights of grandparents to see grandchildren.
Though we must pick & choose our battles ever so carefully, we can never allow ourselves to falter when it comes to our innocent children. Their birthright - family roots, traditions & legacy - is at stake. Their rights to the unconditional love of an earthly elder...a direct bloodline.
Yes, emotion runs high..how could it possibly be otherwise?
When children are used as weapons of mass destruction and unconditional love is denied a child, when everything he knows becomes unknown and and his grandmother disappears without warning - never to be spoken of again? When the psychological rug is pulled out from under this innocent child, immeasurable damage is takes a heavy toll on his heart and soul. And, like a stone thrown into a pond, the ripple effect goes on and on and on...
The world in which many of us grew up has morphed to the point of being almost unrecognizable. What was once a natural law - rights of grandparents to see grandchildren - no longer applies. What would have been unthinkable just fifty or so years ago, now happens thousands of times each year.
Much of the current situation is due to massive, structural changes in the American culture as a whole. A much higher percentage of children than ever are being born outside of marriage. The percentage of adults who don't marry at all is also at record levels. Single parent households are becoming almost as common as intact families.
Divorce rates are high, and custody battles are becoming the norm. As baby boomers have begun to experience the backlash of entitled children hellbent on proving a point, drugs/alcohol addiction, the desire to "start fresh" or just plain outright meanness, the legal question regarding the rights of grandparents to see grandchildren increasingly plays out many hundreds of times monthly in courtrooms across the land.
Perhaps we've been addressing the wrong question all along.
Instead of attempting to resolve the issue of whether or not we should pass a federal law granting Grand Parents rights to their Grand Children, let us ask ourselves instead why we haven't yet passed The Grandchildren Bill of Rights guaranteeing every child her birthright...her legacy.
Angela Montgomery is Chief Editor for GrandparentsRights911.com. She is a leading authority on grandparents rights and tirelessly advocates for laws granting the rights of children to have a loving relationship with their grandparents. For more information, resources & support on [http://www.grandparentsrights911.com/do-grandparents-have-rights/]rights of grandparents to see grandchildren visit the site at [http://www.grandparentsrights911.com/]http://www.grandparentsrights911.com.
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