An analysis of the documentary and news and expert reactions in Norway.
Category: Norway
Public health for children: care or control? by Lars-Toralf Storstrand
Parents in the world’s leading welfare states are increasingly facing disagreement, hostility and suspicion from public services over their children’s medical treatment.
A case exposing the double standards of Norway’s CPS by Jan Simonsen and Marianne Haslev Skånland
A top Norwegian child protection expert, member of the exclusive 14-member national Expert Commission on Children, Jo Erik Brøyn, is found guilty of possessing and sharing about 200,000 pictures and 4000 hours of video showing children subjected to brutal sexual abuse. But the system appears to be very lenient on the question of this child psychiatrist’s two young children to whom he is the single parent. Is Norway’s child protection establishment reluctant to go after one of “their own”?
Children as State Property in Europe: An Ancient Legacy by Kaustav Bhattacharyya
This article startlingly anticipates the bizarre and tragic drama that unfolded in April 2018 in Britain in the case of Baby Alfie Evans. It would appear that children as state property has an ancient legacy in Europe.
Norway’s Barnevernet, wrongly taking children by Tomáš Zdechovský, Czech Member of European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament writes about Norway’s Orwellian system of “child protection”.
Mistaken experiments in child-raising outside the family by Lars-Toralf Storstrand
A case for abandoning utopian communitarian ideals in child welfare for a balanced approach that gives due consideration to family and love in child-raising.
The Myth of Scandinavian “Happiness” and How Children Pay the Price For Radical Feminism by Mrutyuanjai Mishra
Regardless of where you stand on child protection agencies, with thousands of children being torn annually from their parents in Scandinavian countries, they can hardly claim to be the “happiest” in the world. Do we really have in Scandinavia a unique and historic case of parental dysfunction? Or are parents being misjudged by their system?
In this article, Denmark-based Indian journalist Mrutyuanjai Mishra claims that Scandinavia’s social welfare agencies are causing a human rights crisis with the systematic wrongful removal of children from parents. He argues that this state-sponsored child snatching is driven by an aggressive version of feminism that views the family as an outdated patriarchal institution which oppresses children who need to be “saved” by being removed from their parents. But the result has been the unfair targeting of the poor, the uneducated, migrants and, recently, fathers in general.
Scores of Latvian Children Deprived of their Families in Foreign Countries (Part II) by Julija Stepanenko
Latvian Member of Parliament Julija Stepanenko describes the ground-breaking work by Latvia to regain children of their citizens unjustifiably confiscated by foreign child protection services.
“Stay Strong To Every Loving Parent, Anywhere,” Vaclav Klaus, Jr., Czech MP
Czech MP Vaclav Klaus Jr.’s strong message of support in the struggle against increasing unjust interference in the biological family by the State.
Latvian Ministry of Justice Issues Guidelines on Harsh Foreign Child Protection Rules for Families Travelling Abroad – 25 February 16
This is a translation of the guidelines issued by the Latvian Ministry of Justice to build public awareness among immigrating …