The organization certainly has a history of taking children from foreign parents just as they are preparing to leave the country. That, in short, is the reason Barnevernet gave for taking away the four-month-old baby daughter of a young Norwegian father called Erik and his Chinese wife in the country's second city, Bergen. Thats where ParentalRights.org comes in. 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Change). Norway, where Barnevernet had deprived a mother access to her daughter. Marius and Ruth Bodnariu lived in a rural Norwegian town with their five children, aged 3 months through 9 years old. But to its victims, Barnevernet means anything but protecting children. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow Delight in Truth and receive notifications of new posts by email. Official pages supporting Amy are here and here. What a revealing example of Norwegian justice: all form and no humane content. even that opinion has been ignored by Norways courts. Social media wasin fact one of the key factors that led Norway to return the 5 Bodnariu children to their family. All this was done swiftly because court documents show that Barnevernet were very concerned about Amys American citizen status and her ability to go back to America at any time. We are fighting a fashionable and politically correct tide. But continuous or repeated matter-of-fact information and exposure abroad, about ever more individual cases, with meticulous reporting of details, will in the end have a chance to win the day. Three American children brutally ripped from their beds at night in Norway Norway's dysfunctional child welfare system has done it again. The World Health Organization has a very powerful statement on breastfeeding, and it states: Breastfeedingis the normal way of providing young infants with the nutrients they need for healthy growth and development. "I grew up believing that Norway was the best system in the world, best for children, the UN are saying this all the time, and then I discovered that this cannot be the case," he says. I would love get you to know, so have other parents that is samme situasioner with other backgrounds. In 2013, Barnevernet took American citizen Amy Jakobsen Bjrnevg's one-and half-year-old son Tyler because he was one pound underweight. It is NUMBERS that catch the attention of politicians. There was no court order, no proper social investigation, and no help was offered to Amy. The U.S. government has so far done nothing about attacks against American families by the Norwegian government. Avik Roy, Opinion Editor. Barnevernet has swiftly removed Tyler from Amy in 2013 at age 19 months because she was still supplementing his diet by breastfeeding him. One of the first things you notice about Norway when you visit is how beautiful it is. The agency claimed home videos showed the girl was suffering serious psychological harm due to a lack of eye contact and other . They're waiting to hear if they will lose custody of their children for good. It works with parents to solve the problems and keep the family together. All material authored by Delight in Truth may be reblogged and re-posted with reference and link to the site of origin. Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories. Some Norwegian politicians, and certainly Bufetat (the section of the Ministry handling child and family matters) are somewhat nervous about all the protests and publicity re CPS transgressions, and since their whole way of thinking is unrealistic (just like the whole ideology of the CPS), they do not really understand the protests at all. In May 2019 it hit a Christian family from America who had moved to Norway eight months earlier. But at that meeting they didn't even want to look at our plan," Marius says. Thats why we view every news story through the lens of faith. Barnevernet is here in our home and they're trying to take our son. Shutakova and her Lithuanian husband were jailed for 24 hours and told they could get twoyears in prison for discussing the case. By putting these protections in the text of the U.S. Constitution, we can ensure they will protect parents in every state, and that they will endure for generations to come. ", Reikers believes Barnevernet has not been reigned in because this is about a lot of money, and he's not afraid to call it "child trafficking. However there have been some interesting articles in early December hopefully the internal pressure inside Norway becomes more or less constant at least until the discrepancies with respect to legal security against arbitrary decisions of child welfare officers get fixed in Norwegian legislation. Why are so many parents in Norway claiming that the state is kidnapping their children? It's called Barnevernet, and it can be as cold and brutal as the Norwegian winter. Czech President Milos Zeman accused Norwegian social workers of acting like Nazis - an allegation the Ministry for Children has described as absurd and unworthy of comment. They consist of services in each municipality, which are aided and supervised by different governmental bodies at the state as well as the county level. Worldwide outrage forced the Norwegian government to return the children. Over the last year, the European Court of Human Rights indicated that it was investigating the actions of Barnevernet in eight separate child care cases that were dismissed by Norwegian courts. Help us continue to be a voice for truth in the media by supporting CBN News for as little as $1. The parents and their many allies have exhausted every legal avenue in Norway to get Tyler home. Re: About Norwegian Barnevernet policy of taking (kidnapping) kids away from families Over 62,000 people in Romania have signed a petition in recent days asking for a fast and fair solution in a sensitive case involving a Romanian-Norwegian family whose five children were taken into care by the Norwegian authorities because of alleged mistreatment. It expelled a Polish diplomat this year for trying to defend Polish families in Norway from Barnevernet. "There are 26 cases in total at this stage and will probably rise to 30 by within a few months," says Marius Reikers, a Norwegian human rights council before the European Court of Human Rights. But campaigners have also highlighted controversial cases where they say wholly Norwegian families have had children taken into care without adequate justification or attempt to find alternative solutions. While it is Norways Child Protection Services currently in the spotlight, the findings of these investigations will have ramifications for families across Europe. After more than four months when Ruth had to go through the routine of expressing her breast milk and bottling it up to take on the long drive to the two-hour, twice-weekly meetings with her baby son, last week, totally unexpectedly, he was returned to them. The couple assumed it had all been a terrible mistake and the children had been brought back. The government of Norway has in the past defended the work of Barnevernet against what it called "wild accusations." Those events have triggered a worldwide protest campaign, online and on the streets. But an investigation revealed the real reason was officials believed the children were being 'indoctrinated' into Christianity by their parents. Children of the state The Norwegian child protection agency, Barnevernet, har created a society of fear In 1996, the Court found Norway to have violated the right to respect for family life in the case of Johansen v. Norway, where Barnevernet had deprived a mother access to her daughter. The disappearance of 68-year-old Anne-Elisabeth Hagen, the wife of a wealthy real estate investor and one of Norway's richest men, has baffled investigators for nearly three years. One of the cases against Norway which has been accepted to be argued before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, is the case of the Lobben family. "It's 400 offices. Also available on most smart TVs and streaming services. In an open letter of protest to the Children's Minister, 170 leading Norwegian professionals involved in child protection - lawyers, psychologists, social work experts - say Barnevernet is a "dysfunctional organisation which makes far-reaching errors of judgment with serious consequences". Her case has provoked a furious response from the Czech president, who compared the Barnevernet system to Nazi Germanys Lebensbornthe infamous Arian breeding program which kidnapped foreign children. May 3, 2016, 12:01 AM. They are Grozev (Bulgaria), OLeary (Ireland), and Hseynov (Azerbaijan). Ruth and Marius describe their quest for a family reunion. I know there are other problems inside parts of the system and Ive heard and read of such cases. However, Erik's never been diagnosed with any condition other than a slight lack of short-term memory when he was small. (a) when the parties declare that they will not request that the Norwegian Nightmare: 'Barnevernet' Preys On Children and Parents, House and Senate Majorities Still in Question as Votes Continue to be Counted, The Red Ripple: US House of Representatives Still Up for Grabs, Is the US Senate Headed for Another Tie? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. But to its victims, Barnevernet means anything but protecting children. Let the politicians stew, it is worse than useless to give them much attention. . Do you think your son does not need you any more? The judgment of a Chamber shall become final Given the snitch culture in Norway, someone reported Amy to the state for breastfeeding her toddler, as if this was against some law. They are worried because they recognise that dealing with parents and children requires trust in the first place. All these foreigners should read the present Strasbourg judgment. The following day, two black cars appeared again. As the Norwegian media begins to investigate a story it has long ignored, one journalist has calculated that children with a foreign mother are four times more likely than other children in Norway to be forcibly taken from their families. Sharing and informing our friends is great. And Norway calls this a cultural misunderstanding. At a most insignificant suspicion that a child has bee mistreated by its parents, the child will be taken by the sate from its parents and relocated to an undisclosed foster family. "We put forward a huge report on my son's psychological strengths and weaknesses," he says. On Monday, May 20th, three American children were kidnapped by Norway's notorious Child Protective Services (Barnevernet). There just can't be more madness than this. And when I showed my face on TV in connection with this, a lot of people have contacted me, and they have showed me other stories that are even worse than the one that I have experienced. in Norwegian: The case of a young couple in Norway whose five children were taken away by the state has fuelled mounting concern within the country and abroad over its child protection practices. (LogOut/ Speaking to CTVNews.ca by telephone from her home in As, Kristiansen explained that after weeks of telling Barnevernet, Norway's child protection agency, that she wanted to homeschool her son because he was being bullied at school, authorities arrived on her doorstep with an emergency order to remove Kai from the home and place him in foster care. When it comes to Norways Child Protective Services (Barnevernet) the case of American citizen Amy Jakobsen and her son Tyler is one of the most disturbing. "You need to close down all the offices," Salvesen old us. The Norwegian child protection service, known as Barnevernet, has been accused by protesters of "kidnapping" children - in this and many other cases. Instead, Ruth saw the two unknown cars. In the wake of the international outcry that followed the Bodnariu case, many other parents in Norway approached human rights organizations such as ADF International claiming that Barnevernet was also holding their children in permanent care without any basis to do so. Since that time, the boys name has been changed twice to keep his parents from finding out where he is. Also confirmed here: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/norsk-sak-skal-behandles-av-emds-storkammer/id2596920/, Excellent article by Christopher Booker, senior journalist for The Telegraph: Kidnapping is made by the Norwegian Barnevernet ( social services ) who snatches children on a regular basis from traditional families. May be reblogged and re-posted with reference and link to the site of origin our plan, '' says! 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