Within the Bristol Group there are many grandparents who are not allowed to see their grandchildren because their sons or daughters ,fall out with their family and decide that they no longer want the children to have any relationship with their grandparents.
It is difficult to know how this situation can be resolved.
There are also cases where a son or daughter dies prematurely and the parent left behind wants to cut all association with the husband or wife they have so tragically lost.
Of course every story is different, but the end result is always the same, the children are being denied their human right to have contact with their extended family, if it is safe for them to do so.
What happens when children are old enough to make their own decisions?
Will they turn their backs on adults who have not been truthful with them?
Will they resent the lost years of having a loving relationship with their grandparents?
Time will tell.
I would ask anyone who is preventing their children from having contact with their grandparents to think to the future, don't burden the children with this,you may not see eye to eye with other family members but allow your children to make their own mind up.
Who is the winner in all of this?
Absolutely no-one.
In these unsettled times we are all seeing and experiencing around the world, we must get back to valuing families and the importance of families in our broken society.
Our children are the future of this world, we owe it to them to put this right.
Jane
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