GordyL wrote on Apr 16
th, 2016 at 6:28pm:
For those of us with kids, just imagine if you were observed at your WORST moment of parenting which probably occurred just once and for a just a moment, if some out of control rampant children's advocate agency witnessed it.
It's worse than that. They're taking kids away for absolutely NO reason. Once they take them away, you have absolutely NO recourse except to take it to the courts, which can take years and cost a fortune. Until then you see your kids for 2hrs a month, supervised. One family, the Bodnariu family, had 5 kids removed, including a 3 month old that was breastfeeding, just because one of the daughters was singing what was deemed a religious song, in the school playground. The family were well off, the mother a pediatric nurse, the father an IT expert with traffic control at the airport. But they were originally from Romania. At first they thought it was an honest mistaken and they would get their kids back, but it's now been 6 months despite they getting tested by independent psychiatrist and social workers as great parents. Those social workers and psychiatrist don't count. The courts in Norway will only consider the evidence of the Barnevernets own in house experts.
In this particular case, the baby was ordered given back to the family last month, but the other 4 kids are still being kept away.