Family Justice Review : Deadline 23rd June 2011:Grandparents4Justice!

I was touched this week by 2 articles in the June edition of Mature Times; Grandparents new heartache and Have we lost our Grandson forever? (Click blog title for more on this) I would implore David Norgrove as Chair of the Family Justice Review to rethink his interim view on the grandparents role in the family and on society as a whole. These bastions of commonsense and stability could be the answer to the whole Family Law issue in the UK and beyond,where feasible would it not be better for a grandparernt to care for their own children’s kids as opposed to social services in times of crisis? Even as the cynic in me believes the whole review is purely a cost cutting exercise rather then a true pursuit of justice, so here is a cheaper and morally better alternative!
Parental Alienation is also a force that undermines families and is not simply restricted to children and their dad but extended famly including grandparents and uncles & Aunties, and where the authorities are concerned all too often favor the parent who holds the children whilst ignoring the family stopped from having contact or access.
Presenter Gloria Hunniford has campaigned on this issues and Radio personality James Whale watched his own son be alienated from his granddaughter at the time he himself was diagnosed with cancer and to which he dedicated a whole chapter of his book ( Chapter 11 I believe)
http://www.parents4protest.co.uk/p4p/grandparents_group.htm



I would not advocate our silver surfer’s climbing up something dressed as Spiderman, but aren’t they the true superheros anyway?