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I believe there was a reddit thread one time about some family in New York that cut ties from their parents or grandparents, and due to some age old Kinship law
by MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago
I believe there was a reddit thread one time about some family in New York that cut ties from their parents or grandparents, and due to some age old Kinship law, the elders could take children to court for not allowing them to see grandchildren or something of the like.
It's fascinating in the US that we've gotten to the point that families can break contact entirely and be successful but due to completely out of date institutions baked in to law, we're stuck with arbitrary reasons to engage with hostile people. As a judge, why would you ever grant rights of a grandparent willing to take their children to court to see their grand children short of an abuse related situation?
- HWR_14 5y agoThis doesn't sound like some misinterpreted archaic law. It sounds like the law prevented exactly what the drafters intended - parents cutting grandparents off from children. Whether that's a stupid law is another question.
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- teraflop 5y agoThe article touches on this: > Grandparents' rights groups are one step forward and one step back. One step forward, because the majority of the people who are interested in this cause are the people grandparents' rights were meant to help: grandparents who lost touch with their grandchildren through the parents' divorce, incarceration, or some other rupture in their children's families. However, it also brings out the people who think they have more rights over their grandchildren than the children's own parents do, the people who want to force a family reconciliation through the courts, the people who want to take custody of their grandchildren to punish their children.
- seattle_spring 5y agoThis is indeed a law, but if the grandparents in question have a history of abuse then it's possible to still bar visitation rights.