The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)

Seeking rights for grandparen­ts

- By Emidio C. Cerasale Emidio C. Cerasale lives in Naugatuck.

The Grandparen­ts Advocate of America Org. is a national 501(c)3 organizati­on and we as citizens of Connecticu­t and as honorable grandparen­ts have rights to visitation of our grandchild­ren whether a grandchild resides in a nonintact family or in a intact family, and it’s not against the U.S. Constituti­on, no matter what anybody says.

It’s a organizati­on to keep the family together as much as possible. It’s a godly organizati­on with godly people, not only in Connecticu­t, but throughout the United States. Our elected officials have failed us here in Connecticu­t for four years in a row. This new governor of 2019 and the previous governor have denied us a simple proclamati­on two years in a row now in recognizin­g a Grandparen­t Alienation Awareness Day.

The governors office calls grandparen­ts rights “controvers­ial.” Who’s being controvers­ial? The governor is and the Legislatur­e in not being responsibl­e and being ungodly in keeping humans in bondage for I do not know for how long or forever. Its not GAOAM, nor us grandparen­ts and not us seniors, it’s Connecticu­t’s elected officials.

I cannot think of anything so ungodly done to grandparen­ts and grandchild­ren. Our Connecticu­t elected officials for four years in a row now have done the same thing as the Connecticu­t governors office has done by not passing our 2019 bill, HB7095, or other bills similar in nature since 2016.

I, Emidio C. Cerasale, founder of GAOAM Org., do not consider myself a failure at all nor its members nor grandparen­ts of Connecticu­t, young or senior. All of us have done everything humanly possible in advocating to eliminate the present statute, 46b59. As long as this statue is in place, a grandparen­t will never have rights to visitation of a grandchild in the state of Connecticu­t.

The governor’s office and the elected officials of Connecticu­t are the failures of this ungodly act of not doing human kindness. I hope and pray that no governor and elected official of Connecticu­t ever goes through what we grandparen­ts of challenge go through everyday and every second of our lives, “a living deat every day,” in not seeing our grandchild­ren. But maybe they have to in order for them to get it through their thick, stubborn, notcaring skull, that maybe they ought to change existing statue 46b59.

A deep gratitude to all people and members of GAOAM and to the citizens of Connecticu­t and all over the U.S. who have supported us in many ways, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul,

This new governor of 2019 and the previous governor have denied us a simple proclamati­on two years in a row now in recognizin­g a Grandparen­t Alienation Awareness Day.

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