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I did then slow my speech down, enunciating clearly to say, So long as his mother and father are both alive you have, absolutely, zero, none at all whatsoever privilege to their grandson. And even if she's a shit mom (and, she is not!) You still have no access. They didn't appreciate my candor

But… but doesn’t everything revolve around boomers and their VERY IMPORTANT and ALWAYS CORRECT feelings?

These kinds of people just want the government to make it illegal to not be friends with them lol

Especially if a parent turns out to be a raging narcissist. There is no downside to cutting off a narcissist.

Grandparents' rights are a real thing, though in the case of family law it's more about trying to get abused/neglected kids away from their parents into a (hopefully) less abusive living situation. Here, it's just a bunch of old assholes unable to acknowledge that they mistreated their kids.

The use of the state to force grown children to stay in contact with abusive parents would be ine of the greatest examples of authoritarian overreach in my lifetime and it's got some stiff competition.

IT IS ALL FUCKING ABUSE AND WE SHOULD SAY SO.

Time to re-read Larkin: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/...

Direct line from this shit to the deplorable anti-Amy Acton ad by a Ramaswamy PAC.

Basically every time I hear about other people's parents I appreciate how good my boomer parents were all over again.

My dad, a literal 1945 boomer, always said the same, as far back as I can remember. And come to think of it, my mum too (“well, all these horrible parents won’t get any visits when their kids grow up, why do you think I keep bribing you with chocolate?”)

It has the same vibe as "State Mandated Girlfriend."

Whatever the situation is, if Person A has the power to EVICT Person B, then Person A is NOT THE VICTIM. The idea of having to pay money to someone you are trying to get a healing distance from...that makes my skin crawl

We have family that threatened to “get the police involved” when they didn’t get to see the grandkids (for good reason). The entitlement is real.

"boomer" has little to do with it.

you're absolutely right, friend! ❤️

Fuck these Boomer (and some Gen X) assholes. bsky.app/profile/brad...

We recently had a rather nasty lawsuit over grandparents' rights in Rhode Island. And the grandparents were real pieces of shit, too. Evil doctors who quite possibly killed their daughter with bad medical advice & fraudulent treatments. Thank God they lost big and set a new precedent.

Toxic entitlement is the ruling ideology of a generation, which has dominated political power, hence the current state of everything.

I had to cut off my Boomer father. He's an Ex-CEO, wealthy, hasn't worked since he was 45. My age now. He has given no assistance my entire life and when I became disabled from a serious neurological condition and could not work he said I should suck it up. FYI I was a doctor and owned a restaurant.

Always cut toxic people of your life

The statutes are sometimes very broad saying even “any third party can call for visitation rights”. So in essence a person challenging for visitation or custody over a primary parent under Troxel v Granville has to prove it harms the child But every state has one supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

At least there's nothing state can do to ruin the lives of people in this case unlike the satanic panic of the 80's that ruined several kids and adults lives over things that never happened.

Spending some time down the rabbit hole of Estranged Parents' forums is a great way to understand narcissistic abusers "from the inside," which is hard even for psychologists to do.