The Alabama Legislature on Wednesday passed a new bill that would give some grandparents the right to see their grandchildren, about five years after
a similar law was deemed unconstitutional.This year's legislation, sponsored by Rep. Mike Jones, R-Andalusia, repeals the Alabama Grandparents Visitation Act, which was enacted in 2010
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I could actually understand petitioning in this situation, since usually if the parent was no good for the child then that parent's relatives are more likely to have stepped in
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f the children's parents have filed for divorce; or if the children were born out of wedlock
Not sure what the difference these situations make. Seems like morality policing.
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That is definitely morality policing.
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But this gets complicated when only one parent's rights get terminated and that parent's family was taking care of the kid. The other parent can sue for custody it becomes very complicated. Also, sometimes you have situations where the parent is not in a mentally or physically healthy situation and neither are the family members around them, but family members around them will get temporary custody at first and after that it's hard for anyone else to get custody then without a lot of evidence. If my grandparents had been able to sue for custody after my little cousin's mom died, as a right, then we might have been able to avoid 6 years of abuse and neglect to my cousin.
So I could definitely see how a law might inarticulately try to cover those situations, although the other ones are bullshit.
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Yeah, some system should be in place to prevent that while retaining a parent's right to parent. More funding to CPS?
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I completely agree with you about the termination of parental rights though, especially if it's only one of the parents.
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I can understand how people feel like this is an attempt to chip away at parental rights however.
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