Grandparents and Grandchildren Need More Rights

"We are raising 3 gradchildren and we have spent most of our 401k retirement in the last 3 1/2 yrs that we've had them."

"Do not wait until this happens to you!"

"my twin granddaughters where taken away from me by steparent adoption miss and love them every minute of every day"

"I have an online group for supporting grandparents who have been cut off from seeing their grandchildren for whatever reason"

"My grand was taken after everyday of caring for him and buying him everything he needed."

"Children need thier families and who better than grandparents rather than strangers."

"I had to see my grandson get adoped because his mother could not take care of him.Now I only get to see him maybe 2 times a year instead of every weekend.We are both being punished."

"This country must start looking at the rights of grandparents. We are the source of family that these children need. Billy Graham once said " There is no greater influence on a child, than that of an active Grandparent." Please, we need these rights. Fami"

"Grandparents are often more stable than parents"

"I am a grandmother of a state owned baby, I wasn't allowed to be a relative placement for no good reason and this child didn't have to spend 2 years kept away from the people who loved and wanted him the most!"

"grandparents are very important to a childs life, and if your own child can't take care of their children Grandparents must have the option of taking care of the grandchildren before the state decides to destroy the family: children should have rights the"

"PLEASE take this petition seriously"

"why can't grandparents raise the grandchild after we've had the child for 2 year's.mother take's off leave child with grandparent.father steps in and take's child from grandmother.grandchild beg's to live with grandparents not father or mother."

"I believe that Grandparents should have first choice of weather to take in grandkids and raise them or not."

"I am a grand who has adopted her grand and I get no help at all from the government due to I went the private route. We should get the same rights as a foster care parent. Time to have some rights so we can get help."

"Raising a 7 year old granddaughter abandoned by birth parents. Grandparents should be able to voluntarily parent their grandchildren in a loving, stable home w/o interference from courts, cps agencies."