Why are children prevented from seeing their grandparents?

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By Michael Knight

29 November 2009

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There are many things in this crazy mixed up world we live in which don't make any sense.

However, none is more absurd than that of severing loving grandparents from our children's lives.

It's bad enough to cut out a parent from a child's life when there's absolutely no need to do so, but to extinguish kind and loving grandparents who have a wealth of knowledge to share is most certainly a heinous crime.

To allow this to happen because of some vindictive or psychologically disturbed parents, right through to inadequate systems that are open to abuse is a sad day indeed and another nail in the coffin of Separating families.

To deprive children of generous and caring grandparents who have always been positive in a child's life up until the point of Separation, is possibly one of the greatest harms and crimes inflicted upon both children and grandparents today.

The bottom line is families everywhere are being torn apart, with the trend toward Separation growing at an alarming rate. Many children who suffer the loss of the paternal and maternal grandparents and extended family, are in essence being stripped of their natural rights.

Grandpa and Grandma offer vitally important experiences to their young aiding the child's development in so many ways. This connectivity is part of the natural order of things and must not be interfered with if we are to raise healthy adults for the betterment of society.

Nana and Pop provide enormous support and value to a child's life and families alike, and must be allowed to flourish not hindered, unlike many over the past thirty years who have simply been reduced to nothing more than Mr and Mrs Nobody in the lives of our young and innocent. A demeaning slur upon our fore fathers and mothers I must say, who have made our nation what it is today.

People of Australia and the Westernised world had better start kicking up about these atrocities if there is going to be any chance for our children and future generations to have a healthy, wealthy and enriched life.

There are serious agendas being played out here and it's obvious they are not in the interests of children and families.

Grandparents have a lot to offer children and should be given every chance.

With love, kindness and peace
Michael

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    By: Antoinette from Victoria, Australia on July 13, 2010 @ 8:24 pm
    Thank you for this story Michael. I can certainly relate to what you say as my mother or kids nana has suffered as a result of our separation a few yrs back as we live in another state to my ex, who is now being petty and selfish with holiday time. It's truly awful and I just hope people find a better way so both kids and grandparents don't miss out.
    By: Eric Jones from Vic, Australia on January 18, 2010 @ 10:23 am
    My name is Eric. I am a grandad and dont see our neice Melissa. My wife god rest her soul is upset and I dont know hpw to help her. its a travesty. I will contact your offices but this must stop happening to other grandparents and chilren. Eric
    By: Kate P from Vic, Aust on December 1, 2009 @ 9:29 am
    Just came across this story which reminded me so much of my parents. My brother divorced and hardly saw his kids because his ex simply said no. It broke my parents heart. That was about 3 years ago. They don't talk about it much but I know they're still in pain which also affects the rest of the family. Thank you for the article I really related to it.
    By: Jack Jones from Vic, Oz on November 30, 2009 @ 10:55 am
    Right on bro. It's a well known fact that most domestic violence is caused by grandparents angry at the fact they're now growing old and decrepid. These people ought to be locked up.
    And a big cheerio to "Gobbler" (so named because of his grotesque turkey wattle) Young, a black robbed terrorist who is in the business of removing children from their grandparents, all the while denying them due legal process. A crook.
    Wonder when the civil war will break out? Any clues anyone? Save Gobbler for me, please.
    By: Simon from Vic, australia on November 29, 2009 @ 11:49 pm
    Justice Carter was the criminal that did this to my daughter Holly. I've just come back from a family get together. My 30 yo daughter Kyra, by mother (Dr Margaret Brennan now 80) my brother Martin and his two boys Ted and Tom and my 2nd cousin and her husband Mishy and Bernard Cahil who the two boys hadn't meet before. Kyra has contact with Holly and her mother and manages to maintain a good (!) relationship with Holly's mother, knowing too well her contact with Holly would be restricted if she wasn't careful.

    Of course everybody missed Holly - some queitly asking and then pondering the awful reality. Knowing how sensitive it was.You could feel Holly's absence in more ways than one.

    My Mother is in good health but at 80 you can't help wondering how long she'll be with us. Holly used to like my Mother, once commenting that she was a smart lady. and smarter than Wendy's mother (Wendy Powitt her mother). She was 6 then. She hasn't since seen or spoken with her, or anybody except Kyra - she's now 12.

    So if they find this comment they can probably charge me for breaching a 6 year intervention order (one that included Holly despite me never even seeing or speaking to her). Could anybody do anything if they did and jail me? Probably not, the journo's live in fear of Section 121 (FLA secrecy provisions)so they'd probably be silenced.

    But frankly I've reached the end of my tether. What Carter and FL Magistrate Goldsborough have done to my daughter is cruelty and 'abuse' pure and simple. They are the criminals.

    If they succeed in convicting me for exposing the crime they have committed, I accept that I will go to prison and endure all its consequences (including having to close my business). Section 121 only serves to protect the judiciary from exposure and public comment and scutiny, The suggestion that its to protect children is completely bogus. All it does is allow the 'winning' parent / excluding parent to lie to the child and get away with it. Needless to say children do not benefit because mostly the know its a lie. The consequences of this deception is emotional confusion and destroyed trust.

    I guess someone has to go to jail for these terrible law and their application to be overturned otherwise they just keep getting away with it. When they jail people things get hotter for them and they're on pretty thin ice as it is.

    I reckon the my best option is to defy this gag order, so if they do jail me, as many people as possible know about it in advance. So the deception and cruelty stops.

    With the Freeman case coming up, there's a good chance the media will report this case as well, as they did with the freeman case - in defiance of the court (although the were brought to heel afterwards, only to report more later). So somebody decided to back off on the basis that its such a huge tragedy. I wonder who make this call.

    I hope some journo's realise whats happened to my daughter Holly and I and our extended family is also a tragedy and also a crime, despite me being amongst the 99.9999999% of fathers that find ways of coping. Not cracking up completely like Freeman, who must have been in abject fear that his children would suffer as Holly has.


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