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Parents are guaranteed certain rights, like visitation, because they're also guaranteed certain responsibilities, like child support. Yes, grandparents can provide massive amounts of assistance in the rearing of a child, but they're under no obligation to. They can walk away as they see fit, so no I don't think they ought to have anything close to the same rights as parents where visitation is concerned.
Unless you also want to give them the responsibility. I don't think the courts should be allowed to force visitation unless the parents are also allowed to use the courts to force support.
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