Florida's Legislature closed Session 2002 with parents breathing a sigh of relief. Since the Florida Supreme Court has disemboweled the state's freestanding grandparent visitation statute in several high profile cases since 1996, some legislators have tried to "fix" it. However, concerned parents and grandparents have been keeping a close, displeased eye on the legislature in this regard, and have voiced their opposition to any law that will permit the state to interfere with the management of children by their fit parents. Responsible legislators did not permit the proposed fixes to advance in the legislative process, citing constitutional transgressions in the bills.

The watchdog group that spearheads the opposition to court-ordered visitation for grandparents or any other third parties, is the Coalition for the Restoration of Parental Rights (CRPR), a grass-roots national organization comprised of parents and grandparents. Putting aside the legalities of state interference in family affairs, their cause is driven by the belief that a fit parent can make better decisions about their own children than can a stranger such as a judge in court of law.

CRPR members fail to understand why any lawmaker would want to haul fit parents into court because someone outside the core family wants to possess their children contrary to the wishes of the parents, and often of the children.