This petition is dedicated to all alienated grandparents and to their precious, beloved grandchildren!... We need as many signatures as possible in support of this petition in order to recognize grandparent alienation as abuse and request laws to protect grandparents and their grandchildren from such abuse. 

I am an alienated grandparent and also a voice for alienated grandparents and for their grandchildren. There is nothing more in this world that I would love to see than the healing, restoration and reunification of all alienated grandparents with their beloved grandchildren!  Grandparent alienation IS grandparent abuse.  Grandparent alienation IS child abuse, as grandparent alienation deprives grandchildren of the loving and nurturing, presence  and security of their grandparents. 

I have experienced grandparent alienation firsthand and have not been allowed to see my 4.5 year-old granddaughter in a year, and the cell phone was shut off from June 2024 onward when I called to tell my granddaughter Happy Birthday, I love you, Merry Christmas, etc.   I supported my granddaughter and my daughter by providing all for my granddaughter from birth until she was almost 3.5 years old, only to be cut off from her life due to circumstances beyond my control. Despite being financially burdened by ongoing legal fees for the past year to fight for grandparent visitation, it will always be my goal and desire to hug, kiss, remain in contact with and share quality family time with my beloved granddaughter and to be consistently present in her life so that she knows without a doubt that I love her and am here whenever she needs me.  I have no grandparent visitation rights with her half sibling, who is my 8 month old grandson, simply because my daughter's present fiancé is his father. I can only fight for grandparent rights to see my granddaughter because her biological father is not in the picture.

The bond between grandparents and grandchildren is irreplaceable and crucial. Research has consistently shown that having an involved grandparent can significantly and positively impact a child's safety,  emotional stability and overall well-being. According to studies published in the Journal of Family Issues, children who maintain close relationships with their grandparents exhibit fewer behavioral problems and enjoy higher life satisfaction and have higher self esteem. 

For many decades, jails have been filled with adults with low self esteem and behavioral problems that started during childhood as most did not have the loving and nurturing presence in their lives to guide and support them as needed, whether that be their father or their grandparents!  And when fathers are excluded in a child's life, very often the paternal grandparents are also excluded!...  So, let's take action to prevent our precious grandchildren from becoming adults with a huge void in their heart that leave them feeliing incomplete, unloved and empty and angry inside because of a very destructive and devastating evil called alienation.

The importance of  maintaining consistent grandparent presence has not yet received proper recognition nor is the huge damage with life long effects that grandparent alienation causes to both the grandparents and their grandchildren been recognized.  Millions of grandparents across the nation and around the world face the devastating and heartcrushing pain of estrangement and have developed the onset of physical health issues and have also experienced progression of chronic health issues BECAUSE of the damaging effects of the constant pain and stress that alienation causes (such as blood pressure issues cardiac issues, respiratory issues, digestive issues, etc), not to mention the enormous anxiety and depression and sleep disturbance and low self esteem  issues from being suddenly abandoned and dishonored and disowned by their adult children! The words "horrible" and "atrocious" do not even begin to describe the daily living hell of emotional pain and emptiness that the ever growing numbers of millions of grandparents are facing daily as a direct result of being alienated by their adult age children. Grandparent alienation has already reached numbers of epidemic proportions with more and more grandparents being alienated daily...and that means that there are more and more grandchildren being harmed every day because of grandparent alienation! Many thousands upon thousands of grandparents have already reached 1 year to several years of being alienatrd from their beloved grandchildren and disowned by their adult aged children. Instead of celebrating anniversaries, alienated grandparents suffer from the devastating pain of family separation on anniversaries each day, each week, each month and each year!  Alienated grandparents don't get invited to their grandchildren's  birthdays or to sports games or to graduations or to any of their grandchildren's milestones. Instead the heartcrushed grandparents often find out by accident or from neighbors about the births of more of their grandchildren or that there family has moved away or that their family has moved right down the street from them however they are not allowed to see their family because of being alienated!  Some grandparents have learned from neighbors that their grandchildren now homeless or their grandchildren are suffering from critical health conditions or other tragedies and they feel.powerless to help as their love and support is not wanted or allowed by their adult children, so they are robbed of being able to be present in their grandchildren's lives to show love and support even during critical situations.  Grandparents love their adult children and also love and adore and treasure their grandchildren, who will always be a grandparent's blessing and world! 

Now that you have an idea of the huge negative impact that grandparent alienation has on the grandparents, please try to imagine the horrible negative impact on the wellbeing that alienation has on the grandchildren, who are suddenly whisked away from the lives and from the residences they shared with their beloved grandparents and suddenly do not receive phone calls or visits or cards from their grandparents. The grandchildren feel angry and abandoned because of the sudden and continued no contact from their grandparents,   including on very meaningful days such as their birthdays and Thanksgiving and Christmas, school plays and graduations and other important family celebration times.  Very often the grandchildren are not told that the grandparents are no longer allowed to have any contact with their beloved grandchildren!  Time passes and those children grow up with that void of anger and emptiness and low self esteem from feeling that they are no longer loved by their grandparents....And sometimes the parent has lied to their child and tells them that the grandparent is mad at them or doesn't want them living with the grandparent or has thrown them and their parent out, in order to control and manipulate their lil ones to feel anger or hatred towards their grandparent(s).  Such statements made by parents to their lil ones are a form of harmful brainwashing and  pure evil emotional abuse. The grandchildren suddenly feel unloved and forgotten by their grandparents, and are hurt and angry towards their grandparents which damages their own self esteem!

Grandparent alienation all too often happens because the adult age child wants more material items (house, car, money, etc) than the aging parent can offer, or the adult child has addiction issues and/or mental health issues that they refuse to treat (which also causes safety issues for the lil ones....), or there is a boyfriend or girlfriend that doesn't get along with or meet the approval of the grandparent and the adult child feels their boyfriend or girlfrend should be able to come and go as they please in the home they share with their aging parent (even though the aging parent may strongly feel that there are safety issues with that individual whom their adult aged child is dating or has become engaged to) etc.  Instead of making it priority to love their aging parent and to recognize the importance of keeping their aging parent in their life and in the lives of the grandchildren despite having differences,  societal moral decay has spiritually infected and  deceived numerous adult age children into accepting that is OK to dishonor, disown, and alienate and hate and punish their aging parents when clearly it is not OK to do so!  Often the adult age child tells their aging parent that they need to respect boundaries and a list of wrongdoings is presented to the aging parent as justification for the adult child suddenly hating and disowning and alienating them, and it can be anything minute to anything that the adult age child can think of or imagine which is then spun into becoming a justifiable reason for punishing their parent with alienation!  The lack of regulation regarding the necessity and importance of grandparent visitstion rights and the lack of recognition of the vital.role of the grandparents in the lives of their grandchildren and the lack of recognition that alienation is a horrific abuse that contributes to a cycle of emotional and social harm to both grandparents and to their grandchildren that could otherwise be prevented, results in more and more grandparents being harmed by a grandparent alienation  every day, and that means more and more grandchildren being harmed by grandparent alienation as they are ripped from their loving grandparents every day....What a vicious cycle of evil!   Grandparent alienation sets up our grandchildren to fail by creating bleak future outcomes stemming from depression, anxiety, low self esteem, anger, feelings of abandonment, feelings of being unworthy of love, trust issues, and behavioral problems because their loving and nurturing and doting grandparents are suddenly ripped from their lives and from their hearts.....

Who wants to see their grandchildren filling jails as adults?...I sure don't, and I do not believe that any of us want to see that!  It is not OK for adult aged parents to treat their aging parents with anger, hatred, disrespect or to hurt them by using the grandchildren as pawns in grandparent alienation!  It is never OK to use the lil ones to hurt their grandparents! Grandparents are not interchangeable nor are grandparents replaceable nor are they some item of little to no value, much like a cup or paper plate sitting on a shelf at Walmart that is thrown away when no longer of use to the adult age child. Too many of today's young adult to middle age parents fail to see the short term and long term and lifelong harmful effects that their alienation abuse has caused and will continue to cause their aging parents and lil ones. Grandparents are THE reason that those adult age children are here.   Grandparents are very often the reason that their grandchildren have had food, love, clothing, health insurance, safety, emotional support and a roof over their heads when their adult age parents have not been physically or emotionally or financially (or all 3) able to provide such for a short period of time or for many years.....

It's time for society to acknowledge grandparent alienation for what it truly is: Grandparent alienation is a severe form of abuse! Removing a loving and nurturing grandparent from a child’s life is detrimental to their social and mental wellbeing and also to their physical health. Therefore, grandparent alienation must be legally recognized as grandparent abuse and also as child abuse, as it clearly is! 

We urge lawmakers and social services to take action by implementing laws that protect the rights of grandparents to have quality time and involvement in their grandchildren's lives without having to spend thousands of dollars to fight in court for the right to see their beloved grandchildren.  The courts need to recognize grandparent alienation as a horrible abuse that has profound negative life long effects on our aging to elderly grandparents and to their beloved grandchildren and that results in a huge negative impact to society as a whole. Laws need to be enforced against alienators who have often exhibited very cruel behaviors to their aging parents and have cruelly used their lil ones as pawns to harm their lil ones' grandparents. Thank you for showing your support by signing this petition!

Addendum: The following is a list of clinical articles obtained from Google regarding the harmful effects of grandparent alienation on the grandchildren and on the grandparents.

Research and Studies:
Bounds and Matthewson (2023):
Highlight the collateral damage suffered by grandparents in alienation situations and the loss of connection with their grandchildren.  
Avieli and Levy (2023):
Emphasize the profound impact of alienation on the emotional well-being of both grandparents and grandchildren.  
Golly (2016):
Examined the effects of parental alienating behaviors on grandparents, including the manipulation and rejection of the extended family.  
Bounds and Matthewson (2022):
Focused on grandparents' perspectives of alienating behaviors and tactics used by parents.  
Sage Journals:
Explored the relationship between alienation behaviors, life satisfaction, and help-seeking experiences in a sample of 551 grandparents.  
Psychology Today:
Discusses the "death of a dual nature" experienced by grandparents and grandchildren in alienation situations.