Both sides spend tons of money and neither side will be totally satisfied with the results. Getting sued makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for there to be a positive relationship with the child s parents and grandparents. Suppose the grandparents win and visitation is forced, and then the mother declines the visitation. Putting the child s mother in jail is certainly not in the best interest of the child or a minimum intrusion. Ask Julie Mehring who spent over 60 days in jail because she wouldn t allow the visitation.
Parents have some fundamental rights.
As parents, we don t need the government deciding where our children go to school, whether it be home, public, or private school. As parent, we don t need the government deciding where to take our children to church. And as parents, we don t need the government escorting the people we deem unfit or intrusions into our homes. My parents respect my parental decisions. Their parents respected their parental decisions.