"Team Guardianship" Offers Hope and Legal Solutions
The call they’ve been dreading finally comes. Hearts pounding, the grandparents race to the home their daughter shares with her husband and baby girl. A police officer is standing in the street, holding the baby in his arms. Inside the apartment, the baby’s mother lies dead, stabbed multiple times, probably while the tiny girl looked on. The murderer is the baby’s father. The grandparents had become increasingly concerned about his controlling, violent behavior. Their daughter always brushed aside their comments. But they were right.
Another grandmother worries endlessly over her four-year old grandchild. Usually he lives with her, but the woman’s daughter, a schizophrenic and drug addict, often travels, leading her little boy on an endless round of chaotic journeys which take her out of the United States. The grandmother doesn’t know how her daughter gets money to support herself and her child.
