Hi everyone and welcome to Bristol Grandparents Support Group blog. Although we are Bristol based we have grandparents from all over the UK and beyond as members.
It is estimated that over one million children in the UK are denied contact with their grandparents due to family breakdown which may have been caused by divorce/separation, alcohol/drug dependency,domestic violence,bereavement or family feud.
Every child has the right to have contact with their grandparents
if they wish and unless proven unsafe for them to do so. To deny contact from a parent or grandparent has to become as socially unacceptable as drink driving.
I hope to keep you up to date with what is going on in BGSG and I shall continue to campaign for the rights of children to have a loving and meaningful relationship with both parents and their extended family. So please join in as good to hear your views, not just mine!
I also will support via Skype.
There is no membership fee to be part of Bristol Grandparents Support Group.
Esther Rantzen says, " To every grandparent, links of love can never be broken in our hearts."
Please contact during office hours.
07773258270
I never would have believed I could feel this way until my own son got into a controlling relationship that has given us three years of living hell. We were a very happy family up to that point now he has cut us off. They have a son to whom he is devoted but his partner has used it as a weapon - she has denied him access to teach him a lesson in the past, when we politely suggested that was not a good thing to do she rounded on us and gave him an ultimatum, us or his child. We think of him constantly and try every means we can to communicate but he wont - or more likely cant. I have never suffered from depression in all my life but I do now, its a black wet blanket that is always there. I am reluctant to take medication as I see it as fixing the symptoms not the cause and I cant afford to make myself less sharp for the business I run. I am fighting it and thankfully my wife supports me - and she is just as devastated, all we can do is wait for the relationship to fail as one day it must and be around to pick up the pieces for our son. I never wanted to wish ill on his relationships but the sooner this one ends the better. Problem is there is a child involved so he will never be free, nor I suppose shall we.
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