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Seniors’ demands for ‘grandparents’ rights’ could spell big political headaches

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Who gets the final say over who can see your child?

At a Florida campaign event last week, Republican Rep. Byron Donalds was confronted by a weeping grandmother who asked him to intervene so she could get access to her grandson.

The woman said she hadn’t seen the child since Aug. 7 — not quite a two-month span — and begged Donalds, who’s running to become the Sunshine State’s next governor, to uphold “grandparents’ rights” if he wins.

The video went viral, driven in part by the sad trend of family estrangement, often over political disagreements.

In the last decade or so, more and more adults seem to be cutting off their parents, “going no contact” on the advice of therapists, friends or social-media kibitzers.

A major survey this spring found that 38% of the adult Americans polled had deliberately shunned a friend or family member in the last year.

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