Making ‘The Charter for Grandchildren’ legal.

PRLog (Press Release) - Mar 10, 2007 -
Press release. For 11 March 2007

Making ‘The Charter for Grandchildren’ legal.

The present Scottish Executive have done a very brave historic move in creating ‘The Charter for Grandchildren’ but unfortunately they refused to include it in the Family Law Bill Scotland 2006. Their idea was to change the attitudes of families without the use of legislation, a very naive way of thinking from the Executive who are so far removed from the facts presented to them. Everyone knows people will not change unless they are made to do so. We are constantly pointing out the problems to our MSPs most of them are very sympathetic and some have signed our petition at our exhibition on 7th & 8th  March 2007 in the Scottish Parliament, but the Executives are favouring politics rather than the welfare of children.

We are not talking about families who would not dream of breaking their family apart and will go to great lengths to sort out their problems by commonsense methods or by mediation which is readily available.
The group in the most danger has had various reports of 160,000, children living in drug or alcohol related homes. The important fact is, it is a huge problem. The social services cannot cope and are sending children back into such homes where they are still in danger of further abuse. The family law at present is so one-sided with the resident parent having all the power to exclude anyone from contacting the children. In a danger home, if no-one is allowed contact the abuse goes on until the child/ren land in hospital or worse. The abuser in effect has the full protection of the law.

Social services now have bonus targets in the turnover of children being adopted and use methods such as ‘Alienation’ and ‘Adoption without consent’ from any member of the child’s family. To increase the adoption turnover they have created a new market of adopters, gay and single people. We must say or we will get our bottoms smacked that we are not against gay or single people but against the social services treating the children as commodities  to be disposed of as cheaply and quickly as possible and opening the floodgates to paedophiles. The other day a report from Aberdeen said a paedophile was allowed to foster a child. I rest my case on that score.

The government are inviting problems for children by not giving them the legal right to their grandparents protection. If contact was legal it would not be a problem and the children would not be used as weapons or blackmail in family arguments.

Why grandparents especially? I was asked. Grandparents are the biggest carer of children from problem homes in the UK and do not hesitate to stand in when their families have problems. They are usually denied assistance from social services if they have taken them voluntary. If they are on the pension they have little enough to live on but do their best by scrimping and borrowing to make sure the children do not suffer in poverty. Children need the protection from their grandparents and must have legal rights to ensure that they are adequately provided for. So help put a ‘Full Stop’ to the abuse of thousands of children still in danger
by signing our e-petition Or by post using the form below.

http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=153

Petition by Jimmy Deuchars, on behalf of Grandparents Apart Self Help Group Scotland, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to make the Charter for Grandchildren legally binding ensuring that the rights of children are recognised by all public agencies and families and enforced by law.

I support the above petition:-

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To G.A.S.H. Scotland
22 Alness Crescent,
Glasgow, G52 1PJ
Scotland
0141 882 5658

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