Barnevarn is a regular "guest" in my posts for our community because it's hard to find so much outrage and absurd elsewhere in the world than in Norway CPS.
Mariana Haslev Scanland, a professor at the University of Bergen in Norway, studied various cases of taking children away from families and compiled a list of arguments used by Barnevarn social workers and other specialists as the reason why children had to be taken from their parents and placed in foster families.
The father is ill and the mother cannot find a well-paid job, so the family cannot buy toys and pay for school and extra-school leisure of children.
(And the orphanage receives huge money per month for each child, i.e. there is no money to support the family, but there is money for the orphanage?!)Clean clothes are not folded perfectly in the closet.
The psychologist registered that the mother could not make such an omelet that she would have found satisfactory, and she was cutting too thick pieces of bread.
The child looks at strangers and smiles to them. So he is not attached to his mother.
The child turns the face in the wrong direction when the father washes it.
(Thus, the social workers explain that the child does not love the father, although in reality the child just doesn't like when the soap gets in the eyes)Mother uses too much cleaning liquid during cleaning.
Father is too active, mother is too passive.
Father’s leg is injured, because of this he cannot stand on the stairs and cannot wash the upper part of the window frames.
The house has no internal toilet.
The mother asks the grandmother to take the children to the doctor and to medical procedures instead of doing it herself. The mother puts her own interests above the interests of the child.
(Mother was at the courses to improve her skills and earn more money)A mother is too short (height) and when her daughter is a teenager, she will not be able to accept it.
Grandma is 54 years old - too old, 28-year-old sister of the mother - too young. (The child's mother died, and the family wanted to take custody of him).
Of course, it's not all arguments for CPS, but we can agree - these ones are shocking!
It's hard to believe it really happens in this life, and it is really written in documents. But in Norway nothing is impossible.
Barnevarn has unlimited and uncontrolled power, and while it exists all kids in this country are in danger...