Child Abuse Only Grandparents Can Prevent.

Sept. 15, 2007 - PRLog -- (big)

In the middle of the night a house door was kicked open and woman and man rushed in and murdered a father. The killer was the mother of his children and her present partner who had awoken from a drug induced coma.

This is a true story.

A separated father goes to see his children one evening. When he gets there he finds his wife and partner lying unconscious with needles hanging out of their arms. His children were badly neglected, unclean and starving; foraging in a black bin bag looking for food. The youngest had messed all over and at zero degrees outside there they were shivering as there was no heating. The father gathered the children and took them to his house, fed and cleaned them and put them in a warm bed.

This mother and partner had the right of the law behind them to prevent any one who was a threat to their life style by easily obtaining court orders to ban grandparents (who have since relocated because of attacks on their person and home) and other members of the extended family from contacting the children. The law you could say colluded in this by excluding the very people who cared enough to worry about the children. The mother and partner may have chosen to do that to themselves but they had no right to neglect or abuse the children. If no-one has access who can detect and protect these children.

The government in the past have refused to grant grandparents the legal right of contact of a couple of hours a month if geography permits, contact by phone to provide an out side line to their grandparents  (NSPCC has stated they can only handle half the calls), email, cards, letters presents at special times. Is this too much to ask for the safety of children in these danger homes? Grandparents cannot be equalled in their unique relationship with their grandchildren and can detect abuse or neglect a whole lot sooner than any agency that doesn’t have this insight to their own family.

Various reports state that up to 160,000 children are living in drug or alcohol danger homes. Although murders may not be common the danger of neglect and abuse to children is very real and an every day occurrence. Although our story was of drugs it could quite easily be alcohol that was involved. One death a day due to drugs and alcohol abuse a 37% increase and rising.

Who is looking out for the children? The majority of grandparents would

Does anybody really care if it is not at their own door?  It appears to be only grandparents that care.

Jimmy Deuchars
Grandparents Apart Self Help Group Scotland
22 Alness Crescent
Glasgow G52 1PJ
0141 882 5658
http://www.grandparentsapart.co.uk

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Grandparents Apart Self Help Group Scotland is a volunteer charity set up by grandparents to obtain contact with their grandchildren.

Website: www.grandparentsapart.co.uk