" Unfortunately, due to these many complicated family structures, many grandparents will not be able to visit their grandchildren over the holidays. Parents are not allowing their children to see their grandparents everyday and it has become a complex, emotion-laden problem that courts all over the U.S. are wrestling over. Grandparents often form deep and loving attachments with the children in their lives, yet when divorce or estrangement tear apart families, these grandparents or other caretakers may have a hard time finding the legal right to maintain contact with the children they love. Laws concerning grandparent visitation rights vary among state to state. If the children's parents or guardian object to a continuing relationship with the children, everyone involved needs to be prepared to face enormous personal and legal trouble. All fifty states currently have some type of grandparent visitation statute that allows grandparents to ask the court to grant them the legal right to maintain relationships with the children. But since laws vary greatly from state to state when it come to little details, such as who can visit and when, sometimes it is very difficult to actually get the right granted to some grandparents. All grandparents that may be approaching this type of problem need to immediately become notified about the laws of the state in which they live in and be prepared to go to court to demand rights. .
The opposing view to this is issue it that no one has the right to interfere with a parent's rights. People against grandparent visitation rights say that bruised feelings of a grandparent is a tragedy, but not a good enough reason for judges to interfere. However, grandparents are family and the child has a right to know what family truly is. This especially goes for children and grandparents who had a relationship before the divorce, death, or other unfortunate circumstance.
