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Granny Dies of a Broken Heart
Added: (Mon Jan 03 2005)
Press release
Immediate 3rd January 2005
The importance of change increases daily and we need your help to prove to governments why that change is necessary.
We encounter tragic cases far too often and the most recent is particularly poignant.
The very first report we received of 2005 was from one of our group leaders about a grandmother who was denied contact with her grandchildren. In recent months she took to her bed and was so heartbroken over the Christmas period at this normally happy family time, that on New Years Day she sadly passed away. There was no medical reason for this grandmother’s death. The hospital said it was what she wanted.
She had recently contacted us for support but was so devastated by the break up, and to think this could happen to a caring grandmother and with the hopeless situation of unfair family laws, the injustice was too much for her to bear.
How many more cases like this must be reported before justice prevails. Grandparents do not want to take children away from their parents, they only want to keep some form of contact, to know the children are doing well, with visits a couple of hours a month, by letter, photos. phone calls. We are only asking the authorities to give grandparents the right to have, from reluctant parents what the willing parents do without hesitation.
Professor Peter Smith and Linda Drew of Goldsmith College Oxford have done research into the causes of illnesses of grandparents due to enforced separation which goes a long way to support our claims.
ENDS
For further information please contact:
Jimmy Deuchars 0141 882 5658 (chairperson)
June Loudoun 01560 322 937
Alexis Meechan 01505 410 554
Carole Wilson 01241 874 308
Joyce Macmillan 0141 569 5970
E-mail jimmy@grandparents.fsnet.co.uk
Website www.grandparentsapart.co.uk