Situations occur where grandparents are not allowed to have contact with their grandchildren. In some cases grown children have no contact with their parents. More commonly, the parent who refuses visiting privileges for grandchildren is the son-in-law or daughter-in-law, or girlfriend or boyfriend, of the grandparents’ adult child, or a step parent.

In North Carolina grandparents have no legal right to see their grandchildren.

An Iredell County chapter of Grandchildren/Grandparents Rights of North Carolina has recently organized. The group meets monthly at the library. Its purpose is to serve as a support group and to lobby the General Assembly for a law to allow grandparents access to their grandchildren, on a case by case basis.

Those interested may contact Lee Drum at 704-873-1289 or visit www.angelfire.com/hero/gpofnorthcarolina .