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> the 70-year old woman could accept the situation with the granddaughter and find other outlets for caretaking or being with children, or tried a legal way to
by barry-cotter 7y ago
> the 70-year old woman could accept the situation with the granddaughter and find other outlets for caretaking or being with children, or tried a legal way to address the situation
Wow, what a simultaneously disgusting and ignorant sentiment. Disgusting, because it assumes children, family and relationships are fungible, and ignorant, because it assumes grandparents have rights of some kind, when they don’t.
- QuadrupleA 7y agoWhat a nasty reply. Is it so inconceivable that the (hypothetical) woman might have maternal / nurturing instincts that strict blood relations aren't the only possible outlet for? Obviously it's a tragedy, for the granddaughter in particular, and if anything at all can be done about the situation then it should be, but sometimes these things are complicated and there aren't a lot of options and you just have to accept and make peace. Or be full of futile, useless anger that pollutes the rest of your life and the people around you. Also I just said "legal", e.g. child protective services or notifying police, not Legal Rights of Grandmothers On Their Grandchildren or whatever you're assuming.