Remember, in a lot of these cases, both biological and legal parents are the defendants. Their own parents are suing them. The relationships between biological parents, as well as parents between biological parents and stepparents, can strongly influence the adjustment of children. Interparental hostility and conflict that involves the child makes it more difficult for the child to adjust. Children exposed to high levels of interparental conflict have significantly more behavior problems.
Conflict also interferes with the parents working together and co-parenting their children.
Families have lost their homes, businesses, retirement funds, IRA's, savings, lunch money, clothing allowance, braces, and medical exams because of the tremendous amount of money spent on attorney fees, not to mention unpaid leave from work just to make a court appearance. Some court ordered visits have been so detrimental to the children they are now required outpatient psychotherapy in which the parents are required to provide. Parents are often ordered to pay for the psychological exams of the grandparents to prove the grandparent unfit to have unsupervised visits or visits at all. Third party visitation laws cause great financial and emotional harm to a family. These laws are designed in such a way almost anyone can sue an individual for a piece of their child.