Sun May 26 10:54:47 SAST 2013

Divorce is robbing me of grandchild

Aug 10, 2012 | Dear Dudu | 18 comments

MY SON and his wife divorced last year. They had been married for five years and have a three-year-old daughter.

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Aug 10, 2012

maneater

this is one of the better letters i have seen in a while. its a real issue and dear dudu has provided a real solution.
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Aug 10, 2012

imd

I never got involved in their problems at all and never took sides. I know that my son was in the wrong because he had been caught cheating.
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REALLY now????? you did choose.............
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Aug 10, 2012

Vhamsanda

Divorce has nothing to do with the feelings of the children but financial benefits thereof.
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Aug 10, 2012

tpaz

Kidnap the grand child.

Your son is a weakling.....
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Aug 10, 2012

Memme

Etswa mo dilong Gogo, You will see the child when her mother wants you to other than that there is definetely nothing you can do about that.
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Aug 10, 2012

TDK

Makoti is maal. How can she expects the daughter to be with the father at all hours. If the child visits his father there is nothing wrong if the father takes her to her grandmother. She needs her grandmother too.
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Aug 10, 2012

zino

relax gogo your granddaughter will come looking for you in few years to come as for your son is,he is weak in negotiating for his daughter ....no one will stop me from seeing my daughter even her grandfather from her mother s side.



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Aug 10, 2012

Bhekikhaya

The divorce laws in this country should separate or exclude giving rights of children to one party, especially to the female spouses, because they use poor kids to melt punishment to the father for cheating or any other reasons resulted into the divorce, so this story tells,


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Aug 10, 2012

Punkies

Fact is divorce is ugly especially to the little one who usually have no say about who they want to visit or not. It is only fair that the mother of this child let her visit her granny cause she has a right to know all her family.
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Aug 10, 2012

2nevvy4u

thanks God i dont believe in this marriage thing.
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Aug 10, 2012

Tsutsutsu

yoh!!! at list I can understand your problem.
mine is stupid,they are holding my grand children not to visit me because of my Church.
they are these Born again which dont mix with non born again.I feel that I must just go far from them where they will never here about this unborn again old women anymore in their lives.

I feel sorry for my daughter because one day she will need this old women in her life, njengoba azi ukuthi anginayo enye ingane nguyena yedwa ingane yami, well umkhwenyane yena ke unabo abafowabo nodade wabo baningi ekhaya kubo yena.

Ngizathatha umhlaphansi ngingasho lutho kuyena bese ngithengisa konke ngihambe ngiye le kude vele kumanje akazi ukuthi ngikhona noma ngikho so kulula ukuthi ngizihambele.

Akunandaba luyoba lunye usuku.
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Aug 10, 2012

Maezizsto4Sure

mshemane tlameile o trouwe een dag o atolose sefane sa ko lona
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Aug 10, 2012

Maezizsto4Sure

I don't understand why some women like to use children to get back to their partners.The poor child will suffer because grown a$$ adults are behaving like children.

To the woman I say JOU MOER MAN
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Aug 10, 2012

Bucson

Too many things to look at here but l don't want question any of it. Why? It's because me myself and my wife are in a divorce action. Why so many divorces in this country? The word cheating is the cause of everything. If all can be honest to our partners, l tell you, there will more peace in our land. The is a English saying which reads like this: READ THE MENU AND EAT AT HOME, may be the HIV virus will not spread like this. Cheating is the poison in all the marriages. Finish and klaar.
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Aug 10, 2012

MommaC

Not very responsible of the father to leave the little one with the gran and not tell the mother. I don't think that is the real reason though.

If she got on well with the daughter-in-law before then she should communicate directly with her on this. I'm pretty sure the daughter-in-law will see sense as she must be feeling very alone at the moment.
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Aug 10, 2012

2nevvy4u

she is angry because she thought for her to let the kid to spend the weekend with daddyyo will sabotage daddyo's weekends plans.The child was safe under the grandms love and care so what the problem.
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Aug 10, 2012

Mzabalazo

AUG 10, 2012
imd
I never got involved in their problems at all and never took sides. I know that my son was in the wrong because he had been caught cheating.
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Yes really! Why should you not believe her, what proof have you got that this woman is lying?
You people live in a different world, there are sadist in this world, who bite and fire for the fun of it.
I have a relative who experienced a similar situation , yes, people can be so mean.
Amongst our people you still find couples who divorces continue with the battle and they do not even consider the children's well being. Even if the woman has taken side, if you disassociate your child with their paternal or maternal relatives you doing more harm to the child rather than those who plan to punish. Your fight with your ex-in laws has nothing to do with the children 's relationship with them unless there is clear present danger of abuse. It is ubsolutely selfish and exploit actively cruel and has no place in the modern society. You can choose not to have anything to do with your ex an their family but you have no right to delibaretely disrupt the special relationship the children have with heir relatives, you cannot have an excuse for doing that.
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Aug 13, 2012

Mnikazi

Yizinja kabi labafazi and they always put us & the kids through this non-sense. . . . . my wife does this also..... Uzokaka.
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