The Embassy’s claim that children are only taken from their parents when there is “serious neglect, maltreatment or abuse” is so far from the truth that it may be characterized as a serious lie.

Several hundred cases were examined by Doctor of Science Åge Simonsen, whose conclusion was that few of the transfers of care were motivated in real care failure, rather they were done after a subjective assessment by a bureaucrat in the Child Welfare Services that the parents “lacked in ability to care.”

They were not evaluated as able enough to be parents.

This also actually agrees with the statistics of the Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs, statistics of the 20 most frequent reasons why the Child Welfare Services take action. At the top of the list we find “The parents lack in parenting abilities.” In an interview with the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang, lawyer Thea Totland says that she has noted over the last few years increasingly many cases in which there is no question of evident care failure.



From 69 examples I have selected five as representative:
1.The psychologist registered that the mother could not make an omelet to his satisfaction and she cuts the bread into too thick slices.
2.The child looks eagerly at strangers around it and smiles at them. This means that it is not attached to its mother.
3.The baby turns its face the wrong way when its father washes it.
4.The mother wants to let the children’s grandmother bring them to and from physiotherapy and other medical treatment which they need, instead of taking them herself. In this the mother puts her own interests before the children’s.
5.When visiting the children the grandmother wanted to embrace them. The CPS had to stop that, since it can create an unwanted attachment.



Co za kreténa může napsat do posudku, že matka krájí chleba na moc tlustý plátky? Už chybí jen to, že odkládá použité pleny napravo, a ne nalevo. Samozřejmě tyhle švihlé důvody nebudou hlavní příčinou odebrání, ale tohle snad musí každýho rozumnýho člověka trknout, že "odborník" píšící posudek nebude zrovna z nejbystřejších. Anebo je možná až moc bystrý a reaguje na zvyšující se poptávku.