why do employees try to force grandparents to quit working when they have to take care of their grand kids?
606183
older people become more of a liability and need special care. Plus they are not productive as a young person.
117847
People are living longer, more active lives now.  I think forced retirement at any age should be done away with.\n\nSome people need to retire early, and they should be allowed to.\n\nMost folks want to continue working, and they should be allowed to work until they can no longer perform the job.
524381
Right now he is a kid with a sense of "entitlement".\n\nAnd unfortunately we as parents (or grandparents) enstill this behavior in our kids at an early age.\n\nIn our family, the grandma's did it.  \n\nHe is 18, well old enough to work.  So stick to your guns and don't give in NO MATTER WHAT!
788465
Because that is their rules and we have ours. If you don't like the rules perhaps you should run in public office. It is smart for a Country to restrict other people from coming in to take jobs. In order to move to Florida, many years ago, we had been hired for a job and were  able to prove the any senior living there was fuly self-sufficient and not going to be a burden on their country. That is smart in my opinion.
2809
There is a high need for daycare in the US because so many families have two parents that work.  Someone has to watch the children while the parents are at work unless there is an older child to care for them until mom or dad come home.
880584
The Grandmother was out of line.\n\nIt was not her decision to make at all, let alone in defiance of the wishes of the parents.\n\nShe has shown herself to be an irresponsible custodian, lacking in judgement and therefore if I were the parent I'd be making it clear to her that she will not be left in charge of the child in future, and why.\n\nAfter that has been settled calmly and rationally, the parents should stick to their guns, but shouldn't hold it over the grandmother's head.
617509
Because misery loves company? She is probably jealous of the control that you have over your children, but she doesn't want to "work" that hard to achieve control over hers ... it's easier to let them run wild and claim that other parents are too strict.
621029
because people are crappy parents and dont want to do any work, they dont want to sit down with there kids and explain how things work, they want to abuse them and then wonder why they listen to shitty music and shoot people. then they arent createive enough to come up with a god reason for it to happen so they blame someone they can sue.
180344
Like the first person said it might be a matter of beliefs religious wise. Most parents are in love with the idea of one day being grandparents if your an only child you might be catching the backlash from that. If your a teen they probably think your just confused or doing this for attention. Give them time and they will come around.
944419
Unfortunately not. In most states, grandparents have no rights where grandchildren are concerned. The only time this changes is if the parents are incarcerated or there is evidence of abuse. In either case CPS, and attorney and court must be involved.
402218
you Americans that are against this are ridiculous!\nmost of your grandparents came from somewhere else. AND MOST OF THEM DID NOT GET HERE LEGALLY!\nyou are racist, and you think that only you should have the opportunities.  you say that immigrants are taking your jobs!\nwell if you don't get a job, obviously someone who wants it more is going to get it.  the jobs are out there, you need to get off your lazy butt and go get it, it is not going to come to you. if you don't want to work, then let them work. do you think they almost kill themselves to be here just because they don't have to pay taxes? they risk their lives for a better life.  they don't pay taxes, but they get taken advantage of too. they get payed way less than what they were supposed to be payed, and a lot of times they get cheated on!\nso, just put yourself in their position.\nstop worrying about immigrants, worry about terrorism.
990290
I think one reason is because both parents are forced to go to work due to the economy which is leaving the family a last priority therefore our children are in the streets.
810500
They are probably bitter old people sitting at home on the computer with nothing to do because their kids are at work and their grand kids are at school.  Do not pay attention to these bitter people.
494929
The system as it exists today forces families to place their elderly loved ones in nursing homes.  It is a racket.  If my mother would have been allowed to pay me just half what medicaid is having to pay the nursing home I could have afforded to quit my job and stay home so my mother could have continued to live with us.  Instead as law dictates, when she required more care than we could offer while remaining employed she was forced to go to a nursing home where in just 4 months all of her life savings was depleted.  Now that she is flat broke medicaid will take over paying the nursing home.  Of course it is not a nice posh facility because they want more than medicaid.  My mother has Alzheimer's and it is terrible that she is now surrounded by strangers in a strange place.  The problem I see isn't that medicaid wont pay enough it is that the laws about how she could choose to spend her own money for care are to strict and skewed in nursing facilities favor over family.
100457
Three factors are at work here.  1) There may be a high amount of stress on the job 2) There may be a culture of acceptability with this.  It's part of the system 3) The leave policies are generous and encourage people to take this kind of leave.
77731
Because they are addicted to this dumb thing...\n\n...hey, aren't you suppose to be working?
94700
It's because they spend their whole career in this job just waiting for that one promotion that'll make them a supervisor.  And when they get passed over for it, they look at their life as totally wasted, and someof them snap;  they'll target their co-workers, supervisors, then kill themselves.\nIt's really a shame because even if they deliver mail until they retire, their pension plan is pretty good.\nIt's a weak mind that will resort to such things after a "crisis" in their lives.  They should look at all the people who DON'T have jobs, and be thankful that THEY do.