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      "body": "We live in a culture of extreme cleanliness. The so-called child welfare authorities often use cleanliness as a measure of parental skill.\n\nHere is an interesting article about children and cleanliness. Or maybe I should say, about how healthy it is that children get dirty.\n\nhttps://www.google.no/search?q=dirty+children :-)",
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      "body": "17 year old Sandra Linder experienced the hell of the social authorities.\n\nThis Swedish case could well have had a parallel in the other Nordic countries. Child welfare ideology and politics are so similar that there are no important differences: The Nordic model.\n\nHere she is with the 21 weeks old fetus:\nhttp://plakater.r-b-v.net/barnevernets-tvangsaborter.jpg\n\nIn the blog post \"Att förlora två barn på 72 timmar\" (Losing two children in 72 hours) she shares an interview with Sandra (the blogger) about the daughter she was forced by the Swedish social authorities to abort.\". Below the interview she writes more about the case.\n\nWithin 72 hours after the abortion, they took her other child as well anyway.\n\nUnfortunately, this is removed from the internet.",
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      "body": "Fampo is a Norwegian human rights organisation. On their English language website they have collected several articles about the Norwegian CPS, see http://www.fampo.no/cps.html. Fampo has also collected articles about the CPS in some other countries: http://www.fampo.no/child_protection.html.",
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      "body": "The Lower Chamber in the Czech parliament has passed a resolution containing good principles for family, children and child protection. This was done in connection with the violations committed against the family of Eva Michaláková in Norway and other Czech citizens.\n\nThe Czech principles are in accord with the UN and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), but diverge markedly from the ill-considered actions of the Norwegian so-called child protection system – officially named the Child Welfare Services (CWS) – and their deviant reasoning about the principles on which the use of force against families and children should rest.\n\nIn addition, the Czech parliament recommends that the president and the government of the Czech Republic take the initiative to an international agreement with Norway which will establish the mutual obligation of the parties to inform one another about all administrative cases and court cases concerning the other country's citizens who are minors, and to make involvement possible in such cases. It would then also be possible for Norway to be involved in matters within the Czech Republic.\n\nIf one knows the Norwegian system of child protection well, one can easily see how such an arrangement would be abused by Norway.\n\nThere are, furthermore, several legal issues involved, e.g. the question of the obligation of confidentiality. Such obligations are violated continuously in Norway, from municipal level all the way to international. The public party's allegations are held to be the unquestionable Truth. For refugees from Norwegian child protection it will be dangerous if Interpol and different nations treat allegations as real proof. It is furthermore problematic that statutes can be stretched and that bureaucrats can have a practice of breaking them. But I will lay legal matters more or less aside.\n\nThere are at least two ways in which Norway will abuse the mentioned arrangement:\n\n1. Refugees from child protection\nA mutual agreement will be used by Norway to demand children back to Norway from parents (Czechs and others) who flee from misunderstood child protection. The justification on the part of Norway will be the one-sided and deceitful documents of the Norwegian CWS, as well as the opinions they claim to be scientifically based expertise. There is good, illuminating research available which shows both these kinds of documents and such claimed expertise to be spurious.\n\n2. Custody disputes between parents\nNorwegian CWS will demand children back e.g. from Czech mothers whose children have Norwegian fathers. They will hold such a claim to be based on expertise (but hardly backed by solid evidence), and justified by the afore-mentioned kinds of documents, second-hand witnesses, undocumented assertions written down as truths, etc. We can compare this with the procedure in criminal cases: The accused is entitled to read his explanation as written down by the police, and can sign it. In child protection cases ONLY the CWS's account is considered valid. This account the CWS often tries to hinder the private parties from reading, in clear violation of the Norwegian law pertaining to public administration. Nobody in the CWS is made to answer for this.\n\nA small digression about the CWS and breaches of the law: If one googles with the Norwegian words \"barnevern\" (child protection) and \"lovbrudd\" (breach of law) [1], there are several tens of thousands of hits. That is quite a lot for a small country like Norway. Among the hits one finds everything from official reports and legal articles to the writings of desperately unhappy people.\n\nThe methods: Spreading information from sub-quality documents, plus not documented allegations\nAn arrangement whereby information and people are handed over will in other words be utilised for conveying the arguments of Norwegian CWS, arguments whose truth content is strongly opposed by the other party.\n\nSeveral Nordic researchers have done research on CWS documents, with results embarrassing for the CWS. [2, 3, 4]\n\nThe prevailing methodical fault may be illustrated by Danish significant research showing that children under the CWS had several times worse prognosis than children of drug addicts. [5] The Cinderella effect, from Daly and Wilson's research, shows the importance of biological belonging. [6, 7] (Many interesting references are found in the English Wikipedia article. [8] The article about Daly and Wilson's research by professor emerita Marianne Skånland can be recommended. [9])\n\nHow far away the \"expertise\" which the CWS practice is from real scientific research, may be illustrated by reference to a psychologist on a Norwegian (debate) forum, who claimed that \"Children don't give a damn where they live\". The CWS hold that children can be just moved to new \"parents\" and will attach themselves to them. If they do not form attachment to these new \"parents\", it is due to a reactive attachment disorder created by the biological parents. Children's deep despair is re-interpreted as psychological problems created by the parents. This is then used as an argument that the biological parents are useless. The whole set of ideas is so crazy that outsiders have problems believing it. The CWS generally make use of ideas low on an evidentiary scale, and the CWS use such ideas in an amateurish and cynical way. A pointer is the miserable statistical results of the CWS's care for children. (An example is that children in CWS care have an 8 times higher suicide rate than average. [10])\n\nThe belief that the CWS's ideas are plain Truth is a heavy trend today. But in states under the rule of law the truth is something to be proved, on the basis of reliable science. Judges and courts are not to function as \"useful idiots\" for the ideology of professions, for moralism, trends and plainly wrong contentions.\n\nThe systematic support which our form of child protection has in the media [11, 12], the County Committees and courts, combined with the confidentiality practiced as well as the dishonour heaped on people who are \"clients\" of the CWS, all go to create a power culture which is quite formidable. It has been allowed to keep on and develop over several decades and the CWS organisation is now large enough and strong enough to dare attacking people of resource and social standing as well. The corruption which power lends to this profession is noticeable for the large majority of those attacked and run over. The fact that people accuse the CWS and the County Committees of lying has NO consequences for these establishments. People speak to a stone wall of ignorance and complete power. An illustrative description was given in a comment by Czech journalist Adela Knapova from the Czech magazine Reflex: \"In Norway there is a wall. Here it seems as if the state owns the children. It sounds like communism and we have had communism before.\" [13]\n\nIn Norway, it is near impossible for politicians to have a career and at the same time criticise the actions of the CWS. The press and others will immediately attack them furiously. There is a striking logical discrepancy when compensation to CWS victims is granted. It is then acknowledged that CWS care was so and so bad BEFORE ( - 25 years back or more). But when it is a question of the system NOW, the CWS personnel are practically heroes and white knights. To question anything regarding them is to attack The Ultimate Good. But there has never been any revolutionary change in the CWS!\n\nNIBR-report 2006:7: Hjelpetiltak i barnevernet – virker de? (Assistance to families in the CWS - does it work?)\n\"Det synes som norsk barnevern sliter med et paradoks: Barnevernet bruker i stor grad tiltak som vi har lite systematisk, forskningsbasert kunnskap om og som vi ”er usikre på” eller ”tror på” mye ut fra tradisjoner. Disse tiltakene har vært brukt i årtier, og man har verken klart å finne ut nøyaktig hvordan de virker eller klart å sette noe annet i stedet (”nye tiltaksformer”).\" [14]\n(\"It seems that Norwegian child protection is struggling with a paradox: The CWS to a large degree make use of remedies of which we have little systematic, research-based knowledge, and which we are \"uncertain of\" or \"believe in\" very much based on tradition. These remedies have been used for decades, and no-one has been able to find out exactly how they function, nor managed to put something else in their place (\"new initiatives\").\")\n\nIn dealing with Norwegian child protection matters, Czech authorities will meet an old discipline full of pretence, with New-speak and impressive titles, poorly substatiated assumptions about human beings, and with a high degree of rationalisation and whitewashing of the situation in Norwegian child protection of today. This, Norway will attempt to use to obtain and maintain a deceitful power which violates nature's most important bonds of love - the family. This will come from Norwegian authorities and professionals who should be real child and family experts, people who hold a fanatical belief in all that is going on in Norway in the name of child protection.\n\nReferences:\n1. https://www.google.no/?gws_rd=ssl#q=barnevernet+lovbrudd\n2. http://www.krisesenter.org/kritikk_sakkyndige/jt_undersokelse_sakkyndige_utredninger.pdf\n3. http://forskning.no/sprak-barn-og-ungdom/2008/02/avdekker-barnevernets-skjulte-sprakmakt\n4. http://www.barnasrett.no/Artikler/barnevernets_metoder.htm\n5. http://statensnet.dk/pligtarkiv/fremvis.pl?vaerkid=23614&reprid=0&filid=22&iarkiv=1\n6. http://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/media/Course_files/anth-260-edward-h-hagen/daly-1980-discriminative-parental-solicitude-a-biological-perspective-copy.pdf\n7. http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/buller/cinderella%20effect%20facts.pdf\n8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_effect\n9. http://www.mhskanland.net/page62/page131/page131.html\n10. http://www.nibr.no/pub109\n11. http://www.pravasitoday.com/the-media-gives-victims-social-services-the-silent-treatment-arild-holta\n12. http://dokument.r-b-v.net/barnevernet_i_media_kandidat_820.pdf\n13. http://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/i-tsjekkia-sier-de-ikke-dra-til-norge-der-tar-de-barna-dine/8522314.html\n14. http://www.nibr.no/filer/2006-7.pdf",
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      "body": "We had known for some time that the Norwegian government was planning legal restrictions on the freedom of expression, in order for the state to prevent society from acquiring information which can be documented through statistics and research about abuse of children in the care of the child protection services (CPS - Norwegian: 'barnevernet'). Back in 2012 the lawmakers lost patience.\n\nJust like in socialist countries and totalitarian regimes, the bureaucracy gains increasing 'rights' to be spared disagreeable things like freedom of expression. The situation in Norway with regard to criticism of the CPS is getting to resemble exactly what Yugoslavs could tell us of the time under Tito: They could speak about everything, just not about employees of the state.\n\nIn 2012, §7 of the Personal Data Act ('Personopplysningsloven') was changed. Previously, not only journalistic and artistic products had been protected legally: expressions – writings and utterances – aimed at creating an opinion among people were too, of course. In 2012 the word 'opinionsdannende' (creating an opinion) was removed from the law.\n\nIn this way our authorities limit the possibilities of making changes in our society, politically, religiously or otherwise. The limitation gives the authorities greater control over how public opinion is to be influenced or, one might say, by whom.\n\nThe previous formulation in the law was this:\n\"For behandling av personopplysninger utelukkende for kunstneriske, litterære eller journalistiske, herunder opinionsdannende formål, gjelder bare bestemmelsene i ...\"\n(Regarding the treatment of personal information exclusively for artistic, literary or journalistic, including opinion-forming, purposes, the only regulations to apply are ....)\n\nOne of the motives behind the change of the law was, as stated in the preparatory groundwork to it, that public employees who carry out their work in their own home, should be able to hide this, keep it secret. The fact that I myself had won through in 'Personvernnemnda' (the public institution which is the appeal instance regarding decisions made by 'Datatilsynet', the body receiving and deciding on complaints concerning published material), is expressly stated in the preparatory work to be a motive for the change desired by the state. The victory won for freedom of utterance in Personvernnemnda in that case was considerably reversed by the change of law in 2012.\n\n\nThe lawmakers lose patience\n\nRune Fardal had won in Personvernnemnda earlier in parallel cases. Therefore, the confidentiality which 'Datatilsynet' and the Ministry wanted had been rather successfully weakened already. Social workers in the field of child protection and their foster parents were – of course – not above being criticised publically.\n\nThen I won through: temporary/emergency foster homes had no legal protection for their names and addresses to be secret and it was not punishable to publish them. A temporary foster home is a public institution and information about it is public information.\n\nThe system of temporary foster homes, however, is the holiest of cows in the child industry.\n\nAnother holy cow was that the particular public institution concerned in a concrete case probably consisted of a lesbian couple. Maybe in the name of equal rights, the authorities wanted at all cost to hide from public knowledge and possible criticism that children of Muslims, and heterosexuals who disapproved of homosexuality etc, were being placed with homosexuals.\n\nSo our authorities lost patience after several years of searching for possibilities of getting around free speech as a human right. They restricted the possibility of creating an opinion on general grounds.\n\n\nThe human rights aspect\n\nHowever, it is a violation of human rights if public employees cannot be made publically responsible. There are several judgments at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECtHR) which go to this question. Norway has been found guilty of violations of the Convention (ECHR), including violations of Article 10 - Freedom of expression. Norway has indeed been found guilty several times. To try to eliminate the criticisable practice in Norway in the area of freedom of expression and comply better with the ECHR, §100 of our constitution was changed in the early years of the 2000-decade.\n\nHowever, as we have seen, the highly criticisable basic attitude to freedom of expression found in our state's legal establishment and elsewhere continues.\n\n\n**\n\nLinks mainly in Norwegian:\n\n'Datatilsynet':\nhttp://www.datatilsynet.no/English/\n\nThe decision of 'Personvernnemnda':\nhttp://www.personvernnemnda.no/vedtak/2010_11.htm\n\nThe preparatory work regarding a planned change of law:\nhttps://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/prop-47-l-20112012/id666848/\n\nThe Personal Data Act §7:\nhttps://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2000-04-14-31/KAPITTEL_1#%C2%A77\n\nThe complaint to 'Personvernnemnda':\nhttp://dokument.r-b-v.net/datatilsynet_p%C3%A5klage-personvernnemda_vedtak-i-brev-av-070610.pdf\n\nThe European Convention of Human Rights\nhttp://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf",
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      "body": "Norwegian newsmedia was not only mute, but strikingly ignorant and uninterested regarding the Bhattacharya case, in which two Indian kids were isolated from their parents and planned kept away forever by the Norwegian Child Protection Service (CPS). Indian media and numerous blogs and websites in India, as well as in other countries following the Indian lead, were overflowing with comments and analyses. In Norway almost nobody knew of the case and neither ordinary people nor the media were interested, with the exception of one long, informative article in the weekly paper Ny Tid, which was picked up not by other Norwegian media but by India and other countries. Only with strong publicity in India did local newspapers in Stavanger, the city where the Bhattacharya couple lived, start reporting more visibly, but their articles functioned more as a mouthpiece for the CPS than as an investigating power finding and reporting the truth about this case and its relation to the actions of our social services in general.\n\nThe Bhattacharya family, at least Mrs Bhattacharya and the children, should certainly have left Norway at an early stage, before the CPS began their \"assistance\" in the home. Much harm to children and parents could then have been avoided. Others could leave also. Norway has an agreement with the European Union giving freedom to settle and work within the EU. It is therefore possible both for Norwegians and for others holding settlement and work permits here to find more congenial places to bring up their families. Many other foreigners in Norway have the possibility to go back to their own countries or go elsewhere, and of course take their children with them, as long as they go before Norwegian CPS has confiscated the children on \"emergency\" or a case at a county committee has opened.\n\nBut you only leave the country in good time if you know there is a serious threat.\n\n\nWhy are people ignorant of the danger?\n\nPeople do not know how the CPS operates. They would know if our news media reported reliably about the reality and seriousness of the family destructions going on. So how does our Norwegian press react to the possible wisdom of leaving? It is evident to those who have studied CPS activities over a number of years that our official media corporations are far from interested in bringing out such information as could give both Norwegians and other nationalities realistic warning. Their across-the-board policy is that no such serious criticism of our welfare state should emerge and that people who voice it are crazy, have mysterious agendas, or lie about their own CPS cases, while the CPS and our courts are unquestioningly trusted to be truthful and competent. Families hit by the CPS have their articles or letters to the editor rejected or strongly censored if they try to raise public opinion by telling details of how the CPS has acted in their case. Any interviews journalists consent to do with the families usually come out twisted.\n\nThe internet has increased the possibility of families to report realistically about their CPS cases. Media editors dislike this by-passing of their publications; they tend to interpret freedom of expression as \"freedom of the press\". At intervals they foreshadowed censorship over comments and articles on the web, they want to impose their own \"editorial principles\" and install super-editors over all websites.\n\nBack to Stavanger: About two years ago the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad ran a series about the CPS. A summary concluded that the authorities ought to take action against websites advising people to leave the country when they experienced harassment by the CPS. Primarily that means the website I run: http://forum.r-b-v.net.\n\nA young student of journalism did some investigating around changes in the media's handling of CPS cases. Previously, the few times newspapers wrote about CPS cases, their articles gave some attention to individuals affected by CPS actions, which generated a measure of sympathy for families. Now, articles about the CPS tend to avoid a human focus, leading to less reader engagement on a human level. The student in her published study mentioned that she had worked as an apprentice in a newspaper's editorial office, receiving mail, faxes and telephones to the news section. Appalling information came in, of destroyed childhoods at \"children's homes\" – institutions where the CPS had placed children who now as adults complained about the CPS. The student passed it to the editor, who crumpled it up and threw everything in the waste. Not long afterwards there was national uproar about children's homes and earlier CPS victims. Some succeeded in obtaining moderate financial compensation; still it all died down and the way the CPS is run has not changed.\n\nSome years ago the work I do on the internet was commented on in a rather subjective way in a newspaper further south in Norway. I sent a reader's comment to the paper, explaining about our work. The newspaper ignored it. The local paper where I live has completely ceased publishing articles or comments with more than very mild criticism of the CPS.\n\nWeb-debates run by newspapers and other more or less official bodies have long exerted strong censorship over comments relating to CPS matters. Criticism is often deleted, unless critics apply self-censorship and wrap their criticism in cotton-wool. Quite typical is for the media to bar comments under articles about the CPS. One debate site recently threw out an active family-defender and forbade another to write anything about child protection. I have personally not been barred yet from the site concerned, but it may realistically come at any time. \n\nA few years ago those who have experienced the dark side of our \"child protection\" discovered that Facebook could be used to find alliances. Several hundred groups, including some on Facebook-integrated http://causes.com, popped up against the CPS and Norwegian family policies. Some of the groups quickly had several thousand members, although of course only a small fraction are active. My group \"Remove the abuser, not the child\" has 34,000. It bears some witness to the suppression of free speech about important issues. For this to happen in a couple of years in a population as small as Norway's was quite a revelation. Our traditional media establishments continue to be silent.\n\nWe experience, though, continued complaints on Facebook about our critical writing and many have had to argue against exclusion and closing of groups. Several people have not succeeded in coming back in. Norwegian Wikipedia editors concerned with our type of issues completely adhere to the official view of everything about the CPS and no modification by CPS critics of these articles is therefore possible.\n\nSince we started up, however, the proliferation of websites and groups on the internet has made it easier to raise awareness of the censoring practices of the official media. This may have stemmed these censoring practices slightly when it comes to comment and debate sections, since provoking readers beyond all reason is perhaps hazardous at a time of falling circulation.\n\n\nWhat motivates the media?\n\nNorway has a great many newspapers and a few tv-channels, but they are practically all owned by large conglomerates with close ties to political groups or other policy-formers, or dependent in other ways on the state, not least financially through parliament grants of \"press support\". It is therefore no miracle that our media businesses are unanimously state-subservient and active admirers of our welfare state.\n\nPolitical constellations may explain some weaknesses of Norwegian media when it comes to giving publicity to the experiences of people who have been abused by the authorities. More than 70 per cent of Norwegian journalists and editors have been found to be supporters of the moderate socialist Labour Party, which has dominated Norwegian politics since the second world war, or of the left-socialist party. Probably considerably more than 70 per cent of CPS workers vote for these parties. A new, large study of the attitudes of journalists showed almost none to have voted for the one party represented in our parliament which has, at least previously, been somewhat critical of the CPS.\n\nHowever, there is practically uniform support for so-called \"child protection\" – not only for the ideal but for the present CPS – in all sections of Norwegian politics. There are no clear disagreements following a right/left axis. Nor does there appear to be so internationally: In Russia some communists and socialists have demonstrated against Norwegian child protection policies towards their expatriates. Pravda has brought several articles about shocking Norwegian CPS. In Norway, on the other hand, left-leaning political circles that have power are very strongly in favour of forcible removal of children from parents whenever the CPS wants. But so is our major conservative party. A prominent conservative politician recently stated that no political body had ever contributed enough to CPS budgets. The most extreme CPS supporting party in our parliament is perhaps a fairly small Christian party. \n\nThe problem is therefore general in the politics of a country with a public sector so large that all parties must take account of voters who are public employees. The more social bureaucrats, the more voters defend the continued expansion of the social work sector. This becomes a political power totally dominating even the professional debate about the inner meaning and reasonableness of the measures and actions of the CPS, so that the child-professional circles' lack of arguments based on research and facts is hardly mentioned.\n\n\nDirect censorship from the authorities\n\nClearly, the wishes of our authorities of having their policies, administration, agencies and agendas presented as positive and uncontroversial carry great weight with our media. There are even examples of \"somebody\" phoning newpaper editors, telling them that if they continue to write critically about such-and-such an issue, they will not receive information and cooperation on other cases which the paper wishes to write about.\n\nThe authorities also employ, or attempt, direct censorship of private individuals. Many families are told by the CPS or even by their own, CPS-friendly lawyers, that going public with their case story is proof of \"care failure\". CPS victims are pressed to remove their comments from websites. People in a difficult situation, afraid what may happen to their children, understandably often yield. \n\nFirms and other people dependent on the authorities also often comply with what is \"politically correct\". Because of the media situation I placed my debate and information forum on a server abroad, after another forum owner had her site closed down by the Norwegian internet supplier. In the few years my forum has been running, we have had several struggles against both central authorities and the CPS, who want to censor our forum. We have had to fight the Data Inspectorate and the appeal instance (a so-called board of privacy protection). In 2004 a municipality demanded criminal trial of three other people for publishing names of untrustworthy social workers, psychologists, lawyers etc on two other websites. It took letters to the Ministry of Local Government, who consulted the Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice, the Data Inspectorate and the appeal instance before it was finally clear that lists of names simply saying \"We cannot recommend the following persons\" are protected by Article 10 (Freedom of expression) of the European Convention of Human Rights.\n\nBut continued political initiatives to introduce censorship legislation in matters like criticism of the CPS contribute to making the future uncertain for families, and for those who try to help destroyed families. It will still take long, hard work by many others also to reach general understanding of the central point of freedom of expression: It is practically the only way individuals have of fighting against injustice and abuse from their own state. It is not for nothing that Article 10 takes precedence over several other human rights in the Convention.",
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